{"id":26416,"date":"2011-04-29T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/who-are-saints-they-are-flesh\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T00:13:00","slug":"who-are-saints-they-are-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/who-are-saints-they-are-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are saints? They are &#8220;Flesh and Blood Human Beings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Father Gabriel B. O&#8217;Donnell reminds, being a saint doesn&#8217;t mean that you are divested of your own personality, to have intimacy with God doesn&#8217;t mean you change who you are as a person. Domincan Father Gabriel O&#8217;Donnell is currently the academic dean at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/by-topic\/the-saints-\" flesh-and-blood-human-beings\"=\"\" 8713=\"\">PBS Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly<\/a> which helps us to understand the role of saints today.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Father Gabriel speaks to the process of sainting a person based on shepherding the process for two Americans, Father Michael J. McGivney and Rose Hawthorne. See the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/by-topic\/sainthood-process-thousands-of-pages\/8715\/\">Sainthood Process<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another piece is worth watching, too: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/april-29-2011\/path-to-sainthood\/8712\/\">Path to Sainthood<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Father Gabriel B. O&#8217;Donnell reminds, being a saint doesn&#8217;t mean that you are divested of your own personality, to have intimacy with God doesn&#8217;t mean you change who you are as a person. Domincan Father Gabriel O&#8217;Donnell is currently the academic dean at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC. Watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2343,2744,1723,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416"}],"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=26416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}