{"id":339506,"date":"2012-12-18T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/english-tending-the-mustard-seed\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:01:54","slug":"english-tending-the-mustard-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/english-tending-the-mustard-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tending the Mustard Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/tending-the-mustard-seed.html\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-76178\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0px none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tending_mustard_seed_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>What does it mean to be intimately and personally called by God to faith? Where does faith come from? How do you respond to cynicism? What does faith mean when you are speechless in the face of suffering? Can you demonstrate that your belief in God is not an irrational leap into the absurd but a rational conclusion drawn from your experience? With which communities of faith do you identify: your family, prayer group, local parish, religious order, an ecclesial movement? How would you describe the gap between vision and reality in your faith community? What steps can you take to narrow this gap? <a title=\"Tending the Mustard Seed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/tending-the-mustard-seed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>  Publisher: <a title=\"Newcity Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitypress.com\/tending-the-mustard-seed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New City Press (NY)<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living the Faith in Today\u2019s World by Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2826],"tags":[2815],"class_list":["post-339506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura-2","tag-novita-editoriali-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}