{"id":4516,"date":"2018-12-06T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2018-12-09T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T18:53:05","slug":"mistletoe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/mistletoe-2","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Symbols and Traditions &#8211; MISTLETOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mistletoe is an aerial parasite that has no roots of its own. It lives off the tree to which it attaches itself and, without that tree, it would die. Mistletoe is a Christmas symbol of our love which derives from and exists only because God loves us. God, Who is Love, created us in love and caused us to be able to love. Christians are humbled before these words of St. John the Evangelist: \u201cGod is love, and he who abides i<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">n love abides in God and God abides in him\u201d (1 Jn. 4:16). Just as mistletoe may not acknowledge the tree which sustains it, so people may not acknowledge that the love of God sustains them. But if mistletoe were taken from the tree and any person removed from God\u2019s love, both would die.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Lord, You are my God and my Divine Lover. Increase in me my love for You and for my neighbor. Perfect my love and help me to love unselfishly as You love me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistletoe is an aerial parasite that has no roots of its own. It lives off the tree to which it attaches itself and, without that tree, it would die. Mistletoe is a Christmas symbol of our love which derives from and exists only because God loves us. 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