{"id":26348,"date":"2011-03-29T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/saint-john-neumann-he-laid-his\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:50:56","slug":"saint-john-neumann-he-laid-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/saint-john-neumann-he-laid-his\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John Neumann: &#8220;he laid his life down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20N%20Neumann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St John N Neumann.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/St John N Neumann-thumb-200x248-8859.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" 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;\">His love for<br \/>\npeople was authentic brotherly love. It was real charity: missionary and<br \/>\npastoral charity. It meant that he gave himself to others. Like Jesus the Good<br \/>\nShepherd, he lay down his life for the sheep, for Christ&#8217;s flock: to provide<br \/>\nfor their needs, to lead them to salvation. And today, with the Evangelist, we<br \/>\nsolemnly proclaim: &#8220;There is no greater love than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life<br \/>\nfor one&#8217;s friends&#8221; (John 15, 13).<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">Servant of God Pope Paul VI<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">excerpt, canonization homily<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman'\">19 June 1977<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman'\">Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnneumann.org\/\">Saint John Neumann<\/a> during this holy year, the 200th anniversary of his birth.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His love for people was authentic brotherly love. It was real charity: missionary and pastoral charity. It meant that he gave himself to others. Like Jesus the Good Shepherd, he lay down his life for the sheep, for Christ&#8217;s flock: to provide for their needs, to lead them to salvation. And today, with the Evangelist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/saint-john-neumann-he-laid-his\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint John Neumann: &#8220;he laid his life down&#8221;<\/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":[81],"tags":[1901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348"}],"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=26348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}