He is an icon of commitment. Before we knew him, the mind of God had no place in his life. He used to live distantly in places he thought that the \u201cWord\u201d does not reach. Then he was struck by the Word that never despairs of knocking on our doors. His life quickly became faces and books. When he is with his friends at their parish, you see him devouring knowledge from them, from their words and their actions; and, when he leaves them to be by himself, he rushes to papers which have become, to him, a daily companion. Commitment consists of gifts. The Church is what she teaches. My friend learned that life with God is both communion and witness. His old places were present in him, waiting. Those who learn faithfulness do not only keep the covenant, but also seek to extend salvation to all. To understand that the renewing commitment is both a perpetual start and a service, this is what the Holy Spirit reveals. Have I given a testimonial about my friend or about friends you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He is an icon of commitment. Before we knew him, the mind of God had no place in his life. He used to live distantly in places he thought that the \u201cWord\u201d does not reach. Then he was struck by the Word that never despairs of knocking on our doors. His life quickly became faces ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1351,2011,2796,2642,2458],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-testimony","tag-divine-calling","tag-faithful-witness","tag-orthodox-commitment","tag-spiritual-transformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7901,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/7901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}