{"id":24436,"date":"2009-03-17T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/walking-with-the-pope-in-afric\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:40:13","slug":"walking-with-the-pope-in-afric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/walking-with-the-pope-in-afric\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with the Pope in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/OLPH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"281\" alt=\"OLPH.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/OLPH-thumb-225x281.jpg\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span>Holy Mary, Mother of God, Protectress of Africa, you have given to the world the true Light, Jesus Christ. Through your obedience to the Father and the grace of the Holy Spirit, you have given us the source of our reconciliation and our justice, Jesus Christ, our peace and our joy. Mother of Tenderness and Wisdom, show us Jesus, your Son and the Son of God. Guide our path of conversion, so that Jesus might shine his glory on us in every aspect of our personal, familial and social lives.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, full of Mercy and Justice, through your docility to the Spirit, the Counselor, obtain for us the grace to be witnesses of the Risen Lord, so that we will increasingly become the salt of the earth and the light of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mother of Perpetual Help, we entrust to your maternal intercession the preparation and fruits of the Second Special Assembly for <st1:place>Africa<\/st1:place>. Queen of Peace, pray for us! Our Lady of <st1:place>Africa<\/st1:place>, pray for us!<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Mary, Mother of God, Protectress of Africa, you have given to the world the true Light, Jesus Christ. Through your obedience to the Father and the grace of the Holy Spirit, you have given us the source of our reconciliation and our justice, Jesus Christ, our peace and our joy. Mother of Tenderness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/walking-with-the-pope-in-afric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walking with the Pope in Africa<\/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":[26,7],"tags":[2009,32088,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436"}],"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=24436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}