{"id":24696,"date":"2009-06-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-norbert\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T12:55:20","slug":"saint-norbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-norbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Norbert of Xanten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Norbert%20Marten%20Pepijn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Norbert Marten Pepijn-thumb-275x373.jpg\" alt=\"St Norbert Marten Pepijn.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/span>With the Church we pray:<\/p>\n<p><em>O God, Who did raise up blessed Norbert, Thy Confessor and Bishop, to be an illustrious preacher of Thy word, and through him did render Thy Church fruitful with a new offspring; grant we beseech Thee, that helped by his merits we may practice by Thy grace what he taught both by word and deed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2009 is the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylesford.org\/norbert875.shtml\">875th anniversary<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the death of Saint Norbert of Xanten, the founder of the 12th century\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.premontre.org\/\">Order of Premontre<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(the Norbertines).<\/p>\n<p>The Pope,\u00a0on behalf of the Church, wishes &#8220;to give thanks to the Lord for the many gifts\u00a0He has bestowed through the extraordinary evangelical witness and exemplary\u00a0zeal of your Holy Founder, the Holy Father hopes that this happy occasion will\u00a0inspire a renewed fidelity to the model of the first Christian community gathered\u00a0around the Eucharist and persevering in prayer with Mary, the mother of\u00a0Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0May each monastery of the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Premonstratensian\">Order<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0experience an increase in faithful dedication to the Church, austerity of\u00a0life, missionary zeal, and the spirit of hospitality so that each monastery\u00a0will become even more a house of prayer and a school of faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Church we pray: O God, Who did raise up blessed Norbert, Thy Confessor and Bishop, to be an illustrious preacher of Thy word, and through him did render Thy Church fruitful with a new offspring; grant we beseech Thee, that helped by his merits we may practice by Thy grace what he taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-norbert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Norbert of Xanten<\/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":[32282,2],"tags":[1710,2120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696"}],"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=24696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35431,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696\/revisions\/35431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}