{"id":1734,"date":"2006-11-21T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/21\/i-am-old-enough-to-know-better\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T15:50:00","slug":"i-am-old-enough-to-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/21\/i-am-old-enough-to-know-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I am old enough to know better!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Forgotten Among the Lilies \u2013 Learning To Love Beyond Our Fears<\/span>, the popular and wise Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, paraphrases the opening lines of Fr. Carlo Carretto&#8217;s love letter addressed to the Church, the visible institutional Church.<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><br \/>How much I must criticize you, my church and yet how much I love you!<br \/>You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe you more that I owe anyone.<br \/>I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence.<br \/>You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness.<br \/>Never in the world have I seen anything more obscurantist, more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful.<br \/>Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face \u2013 and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your arms! <br \/>No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you.<br \/>Then too \u2013 where should I go?<br \/>To build another church?<br \/>But I cannot build another church without the same defects, for they are my own defects. <br \/>And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ&#8217;s church.<br \/>No, I am old enough. I know better!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">In his book, Forgotten Among the Lilies \u2013 Learning To Love Beyond Our Fears, the popular and wise Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, paraphrases the opening lines of Fr. Carlo Carretto&#8217;s love letter addressed to the Church, the visible institutional Church.How much I must criticize you, my church and yet how much I love you!You have made&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/21\/i-am-old-enough-to-know-better\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}