{"id":158513,"date":"2018-04-01T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158513"},"modified":"2018-04-01T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T11:55:32","slug":"cbcp-chief-hopes-faithful-were-able-to-meditate-this-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/01\/cbcp-chief-hopes-faithful-were-able-to-meditate-this-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"CBCP chief hopes faithful were able to meditate this Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_158514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158514\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/valles_5abee3bd93b8e1_20270726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158514\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/valles_5abee3bd93b8e1_20270726.jpg\" alt=\"Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles (Photo by CBCP News)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/valles_5abee3bd93b8e1_20270726.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/valles_5abee3bd93b8e1_20270726-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles (Photo by CBCP News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The head of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has expressed hope that the faithful were able to contemplate on the deeper things of God during the Holy Week.<\/p>\n<p>CBCP president and Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles also continued to urge the faithful &#8212; as Easter approaches &#8212; to make the most of the week a chance to be closer to God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real challenge and opportunity in these days of Lent is to return to the Lord and trust Him to renew us,\u201d Valles said in his Lenten and Easter message posted at the CBCP news website on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he is hopeful that the spiritual practices of prayer, almsgiving and fasting were able to help the people return to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLent makes us realize how certainly we would return to dust, as we were reminded on Ash Wednesday, if we do not return to the Lord,\u201d Valles said. \u201cLent is about to end, but there is still ample time to bring ourselves closer to the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further said that Easter is the Church\u2019s \u201cmost wonderful feast\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this feast, we are again at the heart of God\u2019s loving presence. Easter is the Lord\u2019s promise of eternal life and happiness,\u201d Valles said, wishing everyone a happy Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Week began on March 25 with Palm Sunday and culminates on April 1, Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The head of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has expressed hope that the faithful were able &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":158514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11083,49173],"class_list":["post-158513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-catholic-bishops-conference-of-the-philippines","tag-romulo-valles","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}