{"id":24486,"date":"2009-04-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/john-paul-remembered\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:00:00","slug":"john-paul-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/john-paul-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"John Paul II, remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/JP%20II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"163\" alt=\"JP II.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/JP%20II-thumb-250x163.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of our beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/index.htm\">Pope John Paul II<\/a>. His physical absence is felt but I believe that he&#8217;s interceding before the throne of grace for those who ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I consider myself in the John Paul generation and I look forward to the day that the Church beatifies and canonizes him. Even though I love Pope Benedict, I still love Pope John Paul. May his memory be eternal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em>God, Who, in Thine ineffable providence, didst will that Thy servant John Paul II should be numbered among the high priests, grant, we beseech Thee, that he, who on earth held the place of Thine only-begotten Son, may be joined forevermore to the fellowship of Thy holy pontiffs. Through Christ our Lord<\/em>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Some newsworthy items:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Sophia Loren speaks about John Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansa.it\/site\/notizie\/awnplus\/english\/news\/2009-03-31_131190066.html\">moving toward sainthood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">A Rabbi <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2009\/03\/what_a_rabbi_learned_from_a_pope.html\">speaks<\/a> about John Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><\/font>&nbsp;<font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h2onews.org\/_page_videoview.php?id_news=1706&amp;lang=en#\">video clip<\/a> on the 6pm Mass offered by Pope Benedict for Pope John Paul II.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h2onews.org\/_page_videoview.php?id_news=1704\">video clip<\/a> on the documentation of Pope John Paul&#8217;s move toward being called saint.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Carl Anderson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/eb\/en\/news\/events\/detail\/548370.html\">reflects<\/a> on his relationship with the Servant of God Pope John Paul II on this 4<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Pope&#8217;s death.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of our beloved Pope John Paul II. His physical absence is felt but I believe that he&#8217;s interceding before the throne of grace for those who ask. &nbsp; I consider myself in the John Paul generation and I look forward to the day that the Church beatifies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/john-paul-remembered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Paul II, remembered<\/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":[8,22],"tags":[1720,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486"}],"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=24486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}