{"id":925,"date":"2020-06-01T20:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.info\/km\/?p=925"},"modified":"2020-06-01T20:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:04:16","slug":"the-blessed-plant-kmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/archives\/925","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Blessed Plant\u201d \/ KMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.info\/km\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blessed-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-926\" src=\"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.info\/km\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blessed-plant-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"blessed-plant\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blessed-plant-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blessed-plant.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This painting is titled \u201cThe blessed Plant\u201d. In St James\u2019s Liturgy (Syriac)Jesus Christ is called the Blessed Plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is interpreted to be the medicinal plant that by its sweet fragrance removes the bad odour and darkness of evil, and brings light and healing to the nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We may assume that the face represented is that of Jesus. In deep meditative union with God the Father he gathers the divine energy embedded in creation through the Holy Spirit and becomes himself the blessed plant that heals the world . We may also say that any human person who discerns the ultimate divine Source of creative energy in the universe through faith, hope and love can share this power of healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The two leaves are like hands raised to heaven to receive the gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is also the great intercessory gesture on behalf of the whole world. The plant is a cross, the tree of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(Painting by Fr K M George Kondothra, Kottayam, Kerala, India during the Covid Lock down , 3\u2019x2\u2019 acrylic on wood. 1 May 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting is titled \u201cThe blessed Plant\u201d. In St James\u2019s Liturgy (Syriac)Jesus Christ is called the Blessed Plant. It is interpreted to be the medicinal plant that by its sweet &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}