{"id":385,"date":"2026-07-31T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/?page_id=385"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:17:05","slug":"returning-to-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/faith-spiritual-life\/discovering-the-faith\/returning-to-the-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to the Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro wp-block-paragraph\">It happens. Life&#8217;s pace, studies, work, an old wound, a disappointment, or a season of doubt can pull us away from practising our faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming back doesn&#8217;t mean erasing your story, or pretending nothing happened. It means letting God open a new chapter. You can start simply: step into a church, attend a Mass, return to prayer, or ask to meet with someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve been hurt by a person or an experience within the Church, your story deserves to be heard with respect. Accompaniment begins with listening, not with pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><em>\u201cHe was lost and has been found.\u201d<\/em><\/p><cite><em>Luke 15:32<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens. Life&#8217;s pace, studies, work, an old wound, a disappointment, or a season of doubt can pull us away&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions\/3306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}