{"id":25396,"date":"2010-03-09T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/pope-visit-monks-of-santanselm\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:02:05","slug":"pope-visit-monks-of-santanselm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/pope-visit-monks-of-santanselm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope visit monks of Sant’Anselmo to begin Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"B16<\/a>My friend Dom Elias Lorenzo, monk of St. Mary’s Abbey
\n(Morristown, NJ), is currently serving as the Superior and Prior of the Abbey
\nof Sant’Anselmo<\/a> in Rome, Italy, the headquarters of international Benedictine
\nConfederation<\/a> and home to the Pontifical Liturgical Institute<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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In his capacity
\nas Father Prior of Sant’Anselmo, Dom Elias recently (February 17, 2010) welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to Sant’Anselmo
\non the Aventine Hill. The Pope’s visit to Sant’Anselmo is an annual event to begin the Lenten season on Ash Wednesday with a procession from the Abbey Church to
\nthe Church of Santa Sabina, the headquarters of the Order of Friars Preachers
\n(the Dominicans) where the Sacrifice of the Mass is celebrated.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Holy Father was greeted by Abbot Primate Notker Wolf (also German) and
\nDom Elias, who escorted him into the basilica where he prayed before the Blessed
\nSacrament. There the Pope stopped for a brief prayer, before beginning Mass at
\nthe chair. Dom Elias said, “This is a unique liturgy in that the Pope
\nintones a penitential litany and the monks, visiting bishops and cardinals
\nprocess from Sant’Anselmo to Santa Sabina for the rest of the Mass.” The
\npope vests for Mass at Santa Sabina.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Dom Elias Lorenzo, monk of St. Mary’s Abbey (Morristown, NJ), is currently serving as the Superior and Prior of the Abbey of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, Italy, the headquarters of international Benedictine Confederation and home to the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. In his capacity as Father Prior of Sant’Anselmo, Dom Elias recently (February 17, 2010) welcomed Pope … Continue reading Pope visit monks of Sant’Anselmo to begin Lent<\/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":[27,60],"tags":[32089,1953,32081,1767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396"}],"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=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}