{"id":3068,"date":"2023-03-23T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2023-03-23T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:00:06","slug":"3068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2023\/03\/23\/3068\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Curse Is Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On today&#8217;s feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, my brothers, we must reflect on the simple story of our restoration as a very pleasant plateau. The angel Gabriel is entrusted with a novel task, and the Virgin manifests a novel virtue; she is honored by a novel salutation.\u00a0 <strong>The ancient curse of women is removed, the new mother receives a new blessing. <\/strong>She who does not know worldly desire is filled by grace, so that, by the Spirit&#8217;s coming upon her, she who declines to admit a husband may give birth to the Son of the Most High. The antidote comes in to us by the same gate of salvation through which the serpent&#8217;s poison entered and infected the whole of the human race.&#8221;*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2020\/08\/Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_Annunciazione.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2427\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2020\/08\/Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_Annunciazione.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1919\" height=\"877\" \/>Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Annunciation of the Lord<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Bernard of Clairvaux, &#8220;On the Annunciation of the Lord, Sermon Two,&#8221; in <em>Sermons for Lent and Easter Season<\/em> (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013), p. 84 [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On today&#8217;s feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, my brothers, we must reflect on the simple story of our restoration as a very pleasant plateau. The angel Gabriel is entrusted with a novel task, and the Virgin manifests a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2023\/03\/23\/3068\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,82,145,113,8,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-bernard-of-clairvaux","category-christ","category-incarnation","category-mary","category-medieval","category-theology","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}