{"id":25365,"date":"2010-02-27T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/from-athlete-to-religious-life\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T12:29:44","slug":"from-athlete-to-religious-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/from-athlete-to-religious-life\/","title":{"rendered":"From athlete to religious life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Holum3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holum3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Holum3-thumb-150x104-5830.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/olympics\/vancouver\/speed_skating\/news?slug=ro-holum021310&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\">Yahoo sports posted a story<\/a> that caught my attention (but I am only now getting around to posting it, sorry) about a former world-class speedskater now on a journey to the vowed life as a <a href=\"http:\/\/franciscansisterscfr.com\/\">Franciscan Sister of the Renewal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Holum2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holum2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Holum2-thumb-76x200-5832.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Kirstin Holum, now Sister Catherine, stands out because she was once a high-profile athlete with promise now (she was at the 1998 Olympics in Japan) she&#8217;s devoting her life to Christ and the Church in a new race outlined by Jesus, Saint Paul, Saint Francis and the Church.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prayers for Sister Catherine&#8217;s perseverance and for the Sisters of the Renewal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago Yahoo sports posted a story that caught my attention (but I am only now getting around to posting it, sorry) about a former world-class speedskater now on a journey to the vowed life as a Franciscan Sister of the Renewal. Kirstin Holum, now Sister Catherine, stands out because she was once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/from-athlete-to-religious-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From athlete to religious life<\/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":[43,11],"tags":[1773,2317,1724,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365"}],"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=25365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}