{"id":25957,"date":"2010-11-08T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/blessed-john-duns-scotus-1\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:04:44","slug":"blessed-john-duns-scotus-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/blessed-john-duns-scotus-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed John Duns Scotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Preface for the Mass of Blessed John Duns Scotus<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Albert%20the%20Great%20%26%20Bl%20John%20Duns%20Scotus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"St Albert the Great &amp; Bl John Duns Scotus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/St Albert the Great &amp; Bl John Duns Scotus-thumb-285x213-7663.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Father, all-powerful and everliving God,\u00a0we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks, through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You give the Church great joy as she celebrates\u00a0the memory of John Duns Scotus,\u00a0in whom the spirit and ideals of our seraphic father Francis burned brightly and came to light and life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You led him to see that virtue\u00a0was of greater value than learning,\u00a0and taught him the pre-eminence of love over all worldly knowledge.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You chose him to be the subtle unravler of reality,\u00a0enabling his sharp mind to penetrate more deeply\u00a0into the mystery \u00a0of the depths of your love for us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He acclaimed the universal primacy of your Son,\u00a0the masterpiece and perfect manifestation of your eternal love\u00a0enfleshed in Christ the New Adam, the King of all creation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You taught him to praise Mary, conceived without sin,\u00a0untarnished and resplendent in her immaculate beauty,\u00a0your intended Model for creating us in dignity and goodness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You instruct us by his teaching and by the holiness of his life,\u00a0and give protection in answer to his prayers.\u00a0Therefore, with the angels and all the saints\u00a0we join in their unending hymn of praise.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Preface for the Mass of Blessed John Duns Scotus Father, all-powerful and everliving God,\u00a0we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks, through Jesus Christ our Lord. You give the Church great joy as she celebrates\u00a0the memory of John Duns Scotus,\u00a0in whom the spirit and ideals of our seraphic father Francis burned brightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/blessed-john-duns-scotus-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed John Duns Scotus<\/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":[42],"tags":[1940,1770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957"}],"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=25957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29250,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957\/revisions\/29250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}