{"id":36,"date":"2009-02-27T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog2\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-02-27T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T21:07:00","slug":"seven-principles-of-the-spiritual-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/seven-principles-of-the-spiritual-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Principles of the Spiritual Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added Br. Thomas&#8217;s description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/principles\/spiritual-life-principles.html\">Seven Principles of the Spiritual Life<\/a> to the website. The principles, based on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Therese of Lisieux, are the following:<\/p>\n<p>1. To keep God in mind at all times.<br \/>2. To trust in God as much as possible.<br \/>3. To do all things for the love of God.<br \/>4. Not to trust in oneself.<br \/>5. Not to seek oneself.<br \/>6. To do all things with joy.<br \/>7. To be as energetic as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth and seventh principles may be a bit of a surprise. Is it even in our power to do things with joy? What does &#8220;energy&#8221; have to do with spiritual life? Yet St. Paul tells us to &#8220;Rejoice in the Lord always&#8221; (Phil 4:4), and St. Therese says that energy &#8220;is the most necessary virtue; with energy one can easily reach the height of perfection&#8221; (LT 178). These and the other principles are explained at greater length in the article. Comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added Br. Thomas&#8217;s description of Seven Principles of the Spiritual Life to the website. The principles, based on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Therese of Lisieux, are the following: 1. To keep God in mind at all times.2. To trust in God as much as possible.3. To do all things for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,51,11,65,66],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquinas","tag-god","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-therese","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}