{"id":25316,"date":"2010-02-08T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/paul-wattson-rip-70-years\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:17:41","slug":"paul-wattson-rip-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/paul-wattson-rip-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Wattson: RIP 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is Father Paul Wattson’s 70th anniversary of death– the great Catholic ecumenist and convert. I pray that he lives with the Lord: May his memory be eternal.<\/div>\n
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O God, Who did raise Thy servant to the dignity of priest in the apostolic priesthood, grant, we beseech Thee, that he may be joined in fellowship with Thine Apostles forevermore.<\/i><\/div>\n
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This essay on Father Paul Wattson, “Father Paul of Graymoor: Founder of the Society of the Atonement and Father of the Church Unity Octave<\/a>” written by Eleanore Villarrubia, is a great overview of Father Paul’s life. <\/div>\n
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Some words by Father Paul Wattson<\/span><\/p>\n


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Now that which fosters this love and causes it to burn
\nup and kindle within us, is the gift of our Lord himself to us in the Blessed
\nSacrament. That is the very heart and center of the religious life. It is our
\nexceedingly  <\/span>great privilege to
\nhave come out of the world and assemble ourselves in the religious houses,
\nwhere we practically live under the same roof with our heavenly bridegroom. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In
\na most intimate manner we receive Him every morning in Holy Communion. When we
\nreceive our Lord in Holy Communion, we receive God’s body, blood, soul and divinity,
\nthe whole Christ, entering our lips and penetrating the inmost recesses of our heart
\neven as he said, “He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood, abides in me
\nand I in him.” [John 6:56] Consequently our life is a life of most intimate
\nunion. Our divine Savior would not only have us live under the same roof with
\nhim and dwell in our chapels, which are for the time being a part of the court
\nof Heaven, but he enters into our interior and penetrates our whole being and
\nlives in us in this wonderful union. And all this is the fruit and the result
\nof the Blessed Sacrament. Therefore, we should have a most wonderful devotion
\nto the Holy Eucharist. (Father Paul Wattson, SA, Retreat Conference August 19, 1926)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A brief
\nremembrance of Father Paul Wattson from a 2009 Communio
\nblog entry<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Father Paul Wattson’s 70th anniversary of death– the great Catholic ecumenist and convert. I pray that he lives with the Lord: May his memory be eternal. O God, Who did raise Thy servant to the dignity of priest in the apostolic priesthood, grant, we beseech Thee, that he may be joined in fellowship … Continue reading Paul Wattson: RIP 70 years<\/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":[57,22],"tags":[1966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25316"}],"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=25316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}