{"id":26393,"date":"2011-04-19T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/pope-benedict-xvi-6-years-as-p\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:15:19","slug":"pope-benedict-xvi-6-years-as-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/pope-benedict-xvi-6-years-as-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI: 6 years as Pontiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope%20Benedict%20in%20choir%20dress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Benedict in choir dress.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/Pope Benedict in choir dress-thumb-246x600-9017.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"600\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Before going to the Noon Mass, I want to offer this prayer for Pope Benedict on the 6th anniversary of his election as the Supreme Pontiff.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; \"><i>Be sure to unite your intentions when you receive Holy Communion and pray the rosary for Benedict and the Church.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; \"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal; \"><i>May the Lord bestow on the Pope the graces needed to live a holy life and to lead the Church unto salvation.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">O Lord, in union with millions of believers, and<br \/>\nprostrate here at thy feet, we pray Thee to save, defend, and long preserve the<br \/>\nVicar of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI the Father of the glorious society of souls,<br \/>\nour own Father. Today and every day he prays for us, fervently offering to Thee<br \/>\nthe sacred victim of love and peace. Turn then, O Lord, thy loving eyes upon<br \/>\nus, who forgetful as it were of ourselves pray now above all things for him.<br \/>\nUnite our prayers with his, and receive them into the bosom of thy infinite<br \/>\nmercy, as a most sweet perfume of that living and efficacious charity, in which<br \/>\nthe children of the Church are united to their Father. All that he asks of Thee<br \/>\ntoday we too ask for with him. Whether he sorrows or rejoices, or when he hopes<br \/>\nor offers the victim of love for his people, we would be united with him. We<br \/>\ndesire that the utterance of our souls should be one with his. Amen.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before going to the Noon Mass, I want to offer this prayer for Pope Benedict on the 6th anniversary of his election as the Supreme Pontiff.&nbsp;Be sure to unite your intentions when you receive Holy Communion and pray the rosary for Benedict and the Church.&nbsp;May the Lord bestow on the Pope the graces needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/pope-benedict-xvi-6-years-as-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Benedict XVI: 6 years as Pontiff<\/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":[7],"tags":[32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393"}],"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=26393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}