{"id":24738,"date":"2009-06-22T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saints-john-fisher-and-thomas-more\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T09:45:00","slug":"saints-john-fisher-and-thomas-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saints-john-fisher-and-thomas-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints John Fisher and Thomas More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic; \">The holy martyrs shed their blood upon the ground for the sake of Christ and have obtained an eternal recompense.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal; \">Lord God, You brought the faith of Your saints to perfection in martyrdom. Mercifully grant that by our communion with Saints John and Thomas we may bear witness in our lives to the faith we profess.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>A prayer of St Thomas More to remember:<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Give me the grace to long for Your holy sacraments, and<br \/>\nespecially to rejoice in the presence of Your body, sweet Savior Christ, in the<br \/>\nholy sacrament of the altar. Amen.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20Fisher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St John Fisher.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/St John Fisher-thumb-200x332.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"332\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Thomas%20More%20HHoblein.jpg\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Thomas More HHoblein.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Thomas More HHoblein-thumb-250x323.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"323\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy martyrs shed their blood upon the ground for the sake of Christ and have obtained an eternal recompense. Lord God, You brought the faith of Your saints to perfection in martyrdom. Mercifully grant that by our communion with Saints John and Thomas we may bear witness in our lives to the faith we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saints-john-fisher-and-thomas-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saints John Fisher and Thomas More<\/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":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24738"}],"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=24738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}