{"id":23931,"date":"2008-08-20T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/visiting-the-abbey-of-saint-pa\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:50:15","slug":"visiting-the-abbey-of-saint-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/visiting-the-abbey-of-saint-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting The Abbey of Saint Paul, Newton, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/DSC00297-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"DSC00297-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2008\/08\/DSC00297-1-thumb-250x187.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/span>Today, Father Basil and I went for a drive to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newtonosb.org\/\">Saint Paul&#8217;s Abbey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Newton, New Jersey. A\u00a0very splendid day away visiting some of his former confreres (Fr. Basil\u00a0was a monk of St. Paul&#8217;s before transferring his stability to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osbmonks.org\/\">St. Mary&#8217;s Abbey<\/a><\/strong>, Morristown).<\/p>\n<p>The Prior of Saint Paul&#8217;s, Father Samuel, received us most graciously; we joined the monks\u00a0for Mid-Day prayer and lunch. Father Basil and I spent time visiting the abbey&#8217;s cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>It was a delight to visit a venerable abbey such as Saint Paul&#8217;s because of its monastic witness and because of its missionary work. This abbey belongs to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionsbenediktiner.de\/html\/cong_his.htm\">Saint Ottilien Congregation<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of monks which is a\u00a0missionary congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Father Basil and I went for a drive to\u00a0Saint Paul&#8217;s Abbey\u00a0in Newton, New Jersey. A\u00a0very splendid day away visiting some of his former confreres (Fr. Basil\u00a0was a monk of St. Paul&#8217;s before transferring his stability to\u00a0St. Mary&#8217;s Abbey, Morristown). The Prior of Saint Paul&#8217;s, Father Samuel, received us most graciously; we joined the monks\u00a0for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/visiting-the-abbey-of-saint-pa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting The Abbey of Saint Paul, Newton, NJ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11],"tags":[32089,1731,1721,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28935,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931\/revisions\/28935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}