{"id":25223,"date":"2010-01-06T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette-1\/"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:44:31","slug":"blessed-andre-bessette-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Andr&eacute; Bessette"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Blessed\u00a0<\/i><i>Andr\u00e9 Bessette, your devotion to Saint Joseph is an inspiration to us. You gave\u00a0<\/i><i>your life selflessly to bring the message of his life to others. Pray that we\u00a0may learn from Saint Joseph, and from you, what it is like to care for Jesus\u00a0and do his work in the world. Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Andre%20Bessette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St Andre Bessette.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/St Andre Bessette-thumb-250x369-5392.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pope John Paul II said\u00a0this of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/saints\/saint.php?saint_id=18\"><b>Brother Andr\u00e9<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A daily crowd of the sick, the afflicted, the poor\u00a0of all kinds&#8211;those who were handicapped or wounded by life&#8211;came to him. They found in his presence a welcome ear, comfort and faith in God. Do not the poor\u00a0of today have as much need of such love, of such hope, of such education in\u00a0prayer?<\/p>\n<p>One of Brother Andr\u00e9&#8217;s friends said of him: &#8220;He spent his whole\u00a0life speaking\u00a0of others to God, and of God to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on Blessed\u00a0&#8211;soon to be a saint&#8211;\u00a0Andr\u00e9\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mt.stblogs.org\/cgi\/mt-search.cgi?search=bessette&amp;IncludeBlogs=23\"><b>found here<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0including the liturgical prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Info on\u00a0Brother Andr\u00e9&#8217;s\u00a0canonization of will be announced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saint-joseph.org\/en_1007_index.asp\"><b>here soon<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Bessette, your devotion to Saint Joseph is an inspiration to us. You gave\u00a0your life selflessly to bring the message of his life to others. Pray that we\u00a0may learn from Saint Joseph, and from you, what it is like to care for Jesus\u00a0and do his work in the world. Amen. Pope John Paul II said\u00a0this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Andr&eacute; Bessette<\/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":[31973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223"}],"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=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30093,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions\/30093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}