{"id":25204,"date":"2009-12-29T07:40:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-thomas-becket-1\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:40:29","slug":"saint-thomas-becket-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-thomas-becket-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Thomas Becket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Thomas%20Becket3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Thomas Becket3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/St Thomas Becket3-thumb-250x357-5334.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Our prayer today is one asking the Lord for the grace being a courageous witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The liturgical prayer (used at Mass) is <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2008\/12\/saint-thomas-becket.html\">found here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Read Butler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesus-passion.com\/Saint_Thomas_Becket.pdf\">life of Becket<\/a>&nbsp;and\/or the Catholic Encyclopedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/14676a.htm\">article on the martyred archbishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m multi-media here at <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\">Communio blog<\/a>, so I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PO1nX1nf820\">a montage of scenes<\/a> from the movie &#8220;Becket&#8221; (1964) with Richard Burton and Peter O&#8217;Toole creatively put together. The acting is superb, dress is stunning and the drama insightful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You like to read the piece on transferral of Becket&#8217;s relics <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2009\/07\/translation-of-the-relics-of-s.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our prayer today is one asking the Lord for the grace being a courageous witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The liturgical prayer (used at Mass) is found here. Read Butler&#8217;s life of Becket&nbsp;and\/or the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the martyred archbishop. I&#8217;m multi-media here at Communio blog, so I found a montage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-thomas-becket-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Thomas Becket<\/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\/25204"}],"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=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}