{"id":25070,"date":"2009-11-09T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T09:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/dedication-of-the-archbasilica-1\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T09:45:19","slug":"dedication-of-the-archbasilica-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/dedication-of-the-archbasilica-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedication of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lateran Basiclica with St Francis.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Lateran%20Basiclica%20with%20St%20Francis.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"386\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/>O God, who out of living and chosen stones builds up an everlasting dwelling-place for Thy majesty: help Thy people, who humbly pray to Thee, and whatever material room Thy Church may set apart for Thy worship, let it bring also spiritual increase.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Post-Communion prayer)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We celebrate the dedication of this Church as the seat of the Bishop of Rome from which all other pastoral authority is derived. We honor the anniversary of a church&#8217;s dedication because a church gives full voice to the sacred Liturgy. The feast of the dedication gives full acceptance and capacity to live the ancient theological principle, <i>legem credendi lex statuat supplicandi<\/i> (the law of belief given through the law of prayer, or even more of short-hand, the law of prayer is the law of belief).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who out of living and chosen stones builds up an everlasting dwelling-place for Thy majesty: help Thy people, who humbly pray to Thee, and whatever material room Thy Church may set apart for Thy worship, let it bring also spiritual increase. (Post-Communion prayer) We celebrate the dedication of this Church as the seat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/dedication-of-the-archbasilica-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dedication of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran<\/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":[17],"tags":[2225,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070"}],"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=25070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}