{"id":25813,"date":"2010-09-16T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/saint-ninian\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:55:45","slug":"saint-ninian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/saint-ninian\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Ninian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Ninian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Ninian.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/St Ninian-thumb-300x388-7248.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lord our God, you brought the Picts and Britons to acknowledge<br \/>\nof the faith through the teaching of Saint Ninian, the bishop: in your<br \/>\ngoodness, listen to our prayers: grant that we who have received from him the<br \/>\nlight of your truth may remain strong in faith and active in works of charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><i>&#8220;Saint Ninian,<br \/>\nwhose feast we celebrate today, was himself unafraid to be a lone voice. In the<br \/>\nfootsteps of the disciples whom our Lord sent forth before him, Ninian was one<br \/>\nof the very first Catholic missionaries to bring his fellow Britons the good<br \/>\nnews of Jesus Christ. His mission church in Galloway became a centre for the<br \/>\nfirst evangelization of this country.&#8221; (Pope Benedict XVI, September 16, 2010, Glasgow, Scotland)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Let us remember the Holy Father and the people of Scotland today. May the saints of Scotland intercede for them before the Throne of Grace.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord our God, you brought the Picts and Britons to acknowledge of the faith through the teaching of Saint Ninian, the bishop: in your goodness, listen to our prayers: grant that we who have received from him the light of your truth may remain strong in faith and active in works of charity. &#8220;Saint Ninian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/saint-ninian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Ninian<\/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":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813"}],"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=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}