{"id":26201,"date":"2011-01-26T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/saint-joan-of-arc\/"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:48:11","slug":"saint-joan-of-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/saint-joan-of-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joan of Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Saint Joan of Arc is a confusing figure for some these days. I think she’s abused by the feminists who dash-off with her story for their own agenda which runs contrary to the authentic Christian woman, Joan. If you miss the fact of Joan’s rootedness in Christ and the Church, then you miss the point of her life and work. The synthesis of the Pope’s teaching is given here. The full texts follows below.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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Our catechesis
\ntoday deals with Saint Joan of Arc, one of the outstanding women of the later
\nMiddle Ages. Raised in a religious family, Joan enjoyed mystical experiences
\nfrom an early age. At a time of crisis in the Church and of war in her native
\nFrance, she felt God’s call to a life of prayer and virginity, and to personal
\nengagement in the liberation of her compatriots.<\/u> At the age of seventeen, Joan
\nbegan her mission among the French military forces; she sought to negotiate a
\njust Christian peace between the English and French, took an active part in the
\nsiege of Orleans and witnessed the coronation of Charles VII at Rheims.
\nCaptured by her enemies the next year, she was tried by an ecclesiastical court
\nand burnt at the stake as a heretic; she died invoking the name of Jesus<\/u>. Her
\nunjust condemnation was overturned twenty-five years later. At the heart of
\nSaint Joan’s spirituality was an unfailing love for Christ and, in Christ, for
\nthe Church and for her neighbour. May the prayers and example of Saint Joan of
\nArc inspire many lay men and women to devote themselves to public life in the
\nservice of God’s Kingdom, and encourage all of us to live to the fullest our
\nlofty calling in Christ.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Saint Joan of Arc is a confusing figure for some these days. I think she’s abused by the feminists who dash-off with her story for their own agenda which runs contrary to the authentic Christian woman, Joan. If you miss the fact of Joan’s rootedness in Christ and the Church, then you miss the point … Continue reading Saint Joan of Arc<\/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\/26201"}],"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=26201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}