{"id":25207,"date":"2009-12-29T20:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/spencer-abbey-lunch-a-personal\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:56:12","slug":"spencer-abbey-lunch-a-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/spencer-abbey-lunch-a-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Abbey &#038; Lunch: a personal pilgrimage at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Abbey%20Church%2C%20Library%2C%20dorm%202009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Abbey Church, Library, dorm 2009.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Abbey Church, Library, dorm 2009-thumb-275x206-5340.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>I spent a few hours today at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spencerabbey.org\/\">Saint Joseph&#8217;s Abbey<\/a><\/strong> in Spencer, MA, and then later in the day had lunch with a friend, Msgr. Robert Johnson in Worcester. It was beautifully sunny but incredibly cold.<\/p>\n<div>Spencer&#8217;s abbey has always held a special place in my heart because of the beauty of the location &#8211;on top of a hill with rolling fields and lakes&#8211; and because of friendship I share with some of the monks and the sacred Liturgy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saint Joseph&#8217;s Abbey is a monastic house of monks of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), the Trappists.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Spencer%20Abbey%2C%20sanctuary%202009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Spencer Abbey, sanctuary 2009.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Spencer Abbey, sanctuary 2009-thumb-250x187-5342.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I even stopped by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyroodguild.com\/xcart2\/\">Holy Rood Guild<\/a><\/strong> and purchased an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and a linen amice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See the monks&#8217; blog that&#8217;s periodically update,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/spencerabbey1098.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few hours today at Saint Joseph&#8217;s Abbey in Spencer, MA, and then later in the day had lunch with a friend, Msgr. Robert Johnson in Worcester. It was beautifully sunny but incredibly cold. Spencer&#8217;s abbey has always held a special place in my heart because of the beauty of the location &#8211;on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/spencer-abbey-lunch-a-personal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spencer Abbey &#038; Lunch: a personal pilgrimage at Christmas<\/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":[27],"tags":[1756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25207"}],"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=25207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28941,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25207\/revisions\/28941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}