{"id":24674,"date":"2009-05-30T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/priest-be-ministerially-faithf\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:42:12","slug":"priest-be-ministerially-faithf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/priest-be-ministerially-faithf\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest: be ministerially faithful &#038; live a life of prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope%20Benedict%20ordains%20priests.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Benedict ordains priests.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope Benedict ordains priests-thumb-250x163.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"163\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>Benedict XVI highlighted the most important points in<br \/>\nthe life of a priest: &#8220;Your faithfulness in the exercise of the ministry<br \/>\nand the life of prayer, your search for holiness, your total self-giving to God<br \/>\nat the service of your brothers and sisters, as you expend your lives and<br \/>\nenergy in order to promote justice, fraternity, solidarity and sharing.&#8221; (Discourse<br \/>\nto Priests in the Sanctuary of Aparecida, Brasil, 12 May 2007)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict XVI highlighted the most important points in the life of a priest: &#8220;Your faithfulness in the exercise of the ministry and the life of prayer, your search for holiness, your total self-giving to God at the service of your brothers and sisters, as you expend your lives and energy in order to promote justice, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/priest-be-ministerially-faithf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Priest: be ministerially faithful &#038; live a life of prayer<\/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],"tags":[1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674"}],"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=24674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}