{"id":25522,"date":"2010-04-28T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/saint-gianna-berretta-molla\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:58:35","slug":"saint-gianna-berretta-molla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/saint-gianna-berretta-molla\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Gianna Berretta Molla: wife and doctor with a passion for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Gianna%20Molla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Gianna Molla.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/St Gianna Molla-thumb-250x314-6275.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"314\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><i>Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nSource of every perfection, give us wisdom, intelligence, and courage so that,<br \/>\nfollowing the example of Saint Gianna and through her intercession, we may know<br \/>\nhow to place ourselves at the service of each person we meet in our personal,<br \/>\nfamily and professional lives, and thus grow in love and holiness. Amen.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintgianna.org\/main.htm\">Saint Gianna<\/a> said, &#8220;Every<br \/>\nvocation is a call to motherhood or fatherhood, earthly, spiritual or moral.<br \/>\nGod has placed in us an instinct for life. A priest is a father, nuns are<br \/>\nmothers, mothers of souls.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman', helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\">Read the Holy See&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/news_services\/liturgy\/saints\/ns_lit_doc_20040516_beretta-molla_en.html\">biography of Saint Gianna Berretta Molla<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">On this feast of Saint Gianna we look for<br \/>\nheavenly assistance with the certain hope that our prayers will be answered.<br \/>\nOur prayerful request of Saint Gianna is for her to ask the Lord for abundant<br \/>\ngraces to carry on the great work of Catholic Healthcare in New York and beyond<br \/>\nat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giannahealth.org\/\"><span style=\"color:windowtext;\ntext-decoration:none;text-underline:none\">The Gianna Center &#8211;The Catholic<br \/>\nHealthcare Center Women<\/span><\/a>. It&#8217;s Pro-life, Pro-woman, Pro-Marriage,<br \/>\nPro-family and Pro-God!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Spirit, Source of every perfection, give us wisdom, intelligence, and courage so that, following the example of Saint Gianna and through her intercession, we may know how to place ourselves at the service of each person we meet in our personal, family and professional lives, and thus grow in love and holiness. Amen. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/saint-gianna-berretta-molla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Gianna Berretta Molla: wife and doctor with a passion for 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":[30],"tags":[2230,2231,1900,2232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522"}],"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=25522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}