{"id":660,"date":"2013-11-26T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=660"},"modified":"2013-11-26T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:37:37","slug":"sign-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2013\/11\/26\/sign-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to a funeral yesterday.\u00a0 People gathered in the cemetery to mourn for a teenage boy who was crushed by a car.\u00a0 People from three villages brought flowers from their yards and made the sign of the cross with dirt, with holy water, and with their hands.\u00a0 The sign of the cross without the knowledge of the <em>power<\/em> of the cross or the comfort of the <em>hope<\/em> of the cross means&#8230;well&#8230;nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2013\/11\/funeral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-661\" title=\"funeral\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2013\/11\/funeral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2013\/11\/funeral.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2013\/11\/funeral-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first funeral we&#8217;ve been to since moving to Las Moras, but I pray that it will be the last where the people know nothing of the signs and symbols they cling to.\u00a0 Please pray for protection for the Nahuatl and for diligence and wisdom as our team prepares to share the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to a funeral yesterday.\u00a0 People gathered in the cemetery to mourn for a teenage boy who was crushed by a car.\u00a0 People from three villages brought flowers from their yards and made the sign of the cross with dirt, with holy water, and with their hands.\u00a0 The sign of the cross without the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,58,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-culture","8":"tag-prayer-requests","9":"tag-village-life","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}