{"id":4911,"date":"2023-05-29T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2023-05-29T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T00:07:15","slug":"lives-are-brightened-by-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-reflections\/lives-are-brightened-by-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Lives are brightened by you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2126\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/saint-pope-paul-vi\/attachment\/333\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?fit=858%2C859&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"858,859\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;neo&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1622303157&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"333\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?fit=625%2C626&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?resize=625%2C626\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2126\" width=\"879\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?w=858&amp;ssl=1 858w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?resize=768%2C769&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/333.jpg?resize=624%2C625&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feast of St Pope Paul VI .\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/catholic-link.org\/paul-vi-prophetic-warnings-birth-control-humanae-vitae\/\">WEB<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cFor you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pope St Paul VI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feast of St Pope Paul VI .\u00a0WEB \u201cFor you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,44,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-evangelization","category-saints-and-blesseds","category-spiritual-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-1hd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7482,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/human-rights-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4911,"position":0},"title":"Human Rights","author":"monks4christ","date":"January 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"the Right to Life is a Human Right","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spiritual Practices&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spiritual Practices","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/category\/spiritual-practices\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4316,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/human-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":4911,"position":1},"title":"Human Rights","author":"monks4christ","date":"January 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spiritual Practices&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spiritual Practices","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/category\/spiritual-practices\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LIFE-3.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9628,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/consecration-to-the-hearts-of-jesus-mary-and-joseph\/part-5-the-heart-of-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":4911,"position":2},"title":"Part 5: The Heart of Jesus- Day 27","author":"Father Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.","date":"June 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"INTRODUCTION The Heart of Jesus is fully divine and also fully human. As a fully human Heart, It feels intensely\u2014grief, joy, desire, aversion, even anger and fear. 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