{"id":8584,"date":"2026-02-06T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:05:02","slug":"why-we-give-things-up-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/why-we-give-things-up-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we give things up for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wait&#8230; \/\u00a0 Espera&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m doing what for 40 days? Why? \/ \u00bfQu\u00e9 voy a hacer durante 40 d\u00edas? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lent is about taking the focus off of ourselves and material things in our lives, and to find focus on God and our love for Him and His for us.<br \/>\nWatch these funny videos for a look on Lent&#8230; <em>(to view subtitles in Youtube click settings, Subtitles, Select auto translate and choose language)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">La Cuaresma se trata de dejar de centrarnos en nosotros mismos y en las cosas materiales, y centrarnos en Dios, en nuestro amor por \u00c9l y en el Suyo por nosotros.<br \/>\nMira estos divertidos videos para ver la Cuaresma&#8230;<em> (Para ver los subt\u00edtulos en YouTube, haz clic en Configuraci\u00f3n, Subt\u00edtulos, selecciona Traducci\u00f3n autom\u00e1tica y elige el idioma).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJBMw2pQZiA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=es-MX&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3tHfUv9Pj4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=es-MX&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait&#8230; \/\u00a0 Espera&#8230; I&#8217;m doing what for 40 days? Why? \/ \u00bfQu\u00e9 voy a hacer durante 40 d\u00edas? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? Lent is about taking the focus off of ourselves and material things&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,206,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent","category-youth-blog","category-youth-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stjuliasilercity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Untitled-design-9-e1756910983391.png?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}