{"id":2488,"date":"2015-08-31T00:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opdacia.org\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2015-08-31T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T23:52:01","slug":"cleanliness-and-godliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Cleanliness and Godliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/torch.op_.org_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/torch.op_.org_-300x103.gif\" alt=\"torch.op.org\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>This Sunday, the twenty-second of the year (B), we present a sermon by the English Dominican Isidore Clarke. The sermon was published on <a href=\"http:\/\/torch.op.org\/torch\">torch.op.org<\/a>,\u00a0a web site which &#8220;provides a new Catholic homily each week written specially for this web site by Dominican friars, and read by followers worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isidore Clarke begins his sermon, &#8220;Cleanliness and Godliness&#8221;, with these words:<\/p>\n<p><em>As children we were told always to wash our hands before meals. Nowadays we\u2019re much more conscious of the need for cleanliness to avoid spreading diseases. Cleanliness is a matter of practical common sense, simple hygiene. Removing the grime was even given a religious spin with the maxim, \u201ccleanliness is next to godliness.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/torch.op.org\/torch\/cleanliness-and-godliness\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, the twenty-second of the year (B), we present a sermon by the English Dominican Isidore Clarke. The sermon was published on torch.op.org,\u00a0a web site which &#8220;provides a new Catholic homily each week written specially for this web site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/?p=2488\">Les videre <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prekener-ar-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}