{"id":25075,"date":"2009-11-11T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/father-benedict-celebrates-50\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:04:55","slug":"father-benedict-celebrates-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/father-benedict-celebrates-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Benedict Groeschel celebrates 50 years of priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Fr%20Benedict%20Groeschel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fr Benedict Groeschel.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Fr Benedict Groeschel-thumb-250x360-5027.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"360\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year is Father Benedict Groeschel&#8217;s golden jubilee as a priest. That&#8217;s right! He&#8217;s 50 years a Catholic priest. Many would know him as a TV personality on EWTN; others know him as the instigator of the Friars of the Renewal, to many, he&#8217;s a friend and a great priest. Friends of his put together a beautiful, brief video of Father Benedict. Watch it, the link&#8217;s below.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pray for priests. Pray for Father Benedict. Pray for the Friars of the Renewal.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The CFR <a href=\"http:\/\/franciscanfriars.com\/Articles\/grayfriar_news_recent.htm\">newsletter on Father Benedict<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NZePc6hIMio\">A video honoring<\/a> him can be seen here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is Father Benedict Groeschel&#8217;s golden jubilee as a priest. That&#8217;s right! He&#8217;s 50 years a Catholic priest. Many would know him as a TV personality on EWTN; others know him as the instigator of the Friars of the Renewal, to many, he&#8217;s a friend and a great priest. Friends of his put together &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/father-benedict-celebrates-50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fr Benedict Groeschel celebrates 50 years of priesthood<\/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":[15,43],"tags":[1773,1753,1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075"}],"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=25075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}