{"id":24431,"date":"2009-03-16T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/pope-announces-year-of-st-john\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:02:15","slug":"pope-announces-year-of-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/pope-announces-year-of-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope announces Year of St John Mary Vianney 2009-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"St<\/a><\/span>On the occasion of the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of the Saint Curé of Ars, John Mary Vianney, His Holiness announced<\/a> this morning that from June 19, 2009<\/st1:date> to June 19, 2010<\/st1:date>, there will be a special Year of the Priesthood<\/em> under the theme of “Fidelity of Christ, fidelity of priests.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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During this Jubilee Year Benedict XVI proclaimed Saint John Mary Vianney “Patron of all priests of the world.” He will publish a Directory for Confessors and Spiritual Directors<\/em> together with a collection of writings of the Supreme Pontiff concerning the essential themes of the life and mission of the priesthood today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Congregation for the Clergy<\/a> together with the diocesan ordinaries and superiors of religious institutes will collaborate in promoting and coordinating the various spiritual and pastoral initiatives that concern the importance of the life and mission of the spriest in the Church and in contemporary society, the necessity of competent permanent formation of priests and seminarians.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Pope will opens the special Year on 19 June with Vespers in St. Peter’s Basilica where the relics of the saintly ‘Cure of Ars’ will be brought by Bishop Guy Bagnard of Belley-Ars, France<\/st1:place><\/st1:country>. The pope will conclude the year on 19 June 2010<\/st1:date>, presiding at a “World Meeting of Priests” in St. Peter’s Square. <\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/span>A video clip of the announcement from H2O News<\/a>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of the Saint Curé of Ars, John Mary Vianney, His Holiness announced this morning that from June 19, 2009 to June 19, 2010, there will be a special Year of the Priesthood under the theme of “Fidelity of Christ, fidelity of priests.”   During this Jubilee … Continue reading Pope announces Year of St John Mary Vianney 2009-2010<\/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":[15,67],"tags":[1818,2007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431"}],"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=24431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}