{"id":24782,"date":"2009-07-06T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-maria-goretti\/"},"modified":"2015-07-04T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T02:32:05","slug":"saint-maria-goretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-maria-goretti\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Maria Goretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Father, source of innocence and lover of chastity, you\u00a0gave Saint Maria G<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St. Maria Goretti-thumb-250x139.jpg\" alt=\"St. Maria Goretti.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"165\" \/>oretti the privilege of offering her life in witness to\u00a0Christ. As you gave her the crown of martyrdom, let her prayers keep us faithful\u00a0to your teaching<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saint Maria Goretti is an example for the new generations who\u00a0are threatened by a non-commital attitude that finds it difficult to understand\u00a0the importance of the values which admit of no compromise. [But] do not let the\u00a0consumer culture and pleasure numb your conscience! Be an alert and vigilant &#8220;watchmen&#8221;,\u00a0be the real champions of a new humanity. (Pope John Paul II, 7 July 2002)<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Garamond; &lt;br \/&gt;mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><i><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Father, source of innocence and lover of chastity, you\u00a0gave Saint Maria Goretti the privilege of offering her life in witness to\u00a0Christ. As you gave her the crown of martyrdom, let her prayers keep us faithful\u00a0to your teaching Saint Maria Goretti is an example for the new generations who\u00a0are threatened by a non-commital attitude that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-maria-goretti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Maria Goretti<\/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":[32057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24782"}],"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=24782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32356,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24782\/revisions\/32356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}