{"id":25234,"date":"2010-01-10T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/raising-up-saints-and-interces\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:12:52","slug":"raising-up-saints-and-interces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/raising-up-saints-and-interces\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising up saints and intercessors: witnesses to Christ urgently needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">A Church that<br \/>\nno longer raises up holy men and women among her priests, laypeople and<br \/>\nreligious is a sterile mother. In fact, what matters the most is not the<br \/>\nconstruction of huge buildings or realizing great projects. What the Church needs<br \/>\nmost is the witness of saints. Holiness is the sign of the Church&#8217;s<br \/>\ncredibility. They are her letters of reference.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">His Beatitude Fouad Twal<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Beatification of Mother Maria Alfonsina Danil<br \/>\nGhattas<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">November 22, 2009<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church that no longer raises up holy men and women among her priests, laypeople and religious is a sterile mother. In fact, what matters the most is not the construction of huge buildings or realizing great projects. What the Church needs most is the witness of saints. Holiness is the sign of the Church&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/raising-up-saints-and-interces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raising up saints and intercessors: witnesses to Christ urgently needed<\/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":[32],"tags":[2278,1710,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234"}],"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=25234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}