{"id":26515,"date":"2011-07-07T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/thomas-frerking-abbot-re-elect\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T21:22:07","slug":"thomas-frerking-abbot-re-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/thomas-frerking-abbot-re-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frerking, Abbot, re-elected at St Louis Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Thomas%20Frerking%20and%20Cardinal%20Burke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Frerking and Cardinal Burke.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/Thomas Frerking and Cardinal Burke-thumb-300x216-9534.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Today, the monks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlouisabbey.org\/\">Saint Louis Abbey<\/a> elected for the third time, Abbot Thomas Frerking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abbot Thomas, 69, was first elected in 1995; he will serve for an 8-year term. The abbots of the English Benedictine Congregation have term limits: you can be elected indefinitely for 8 years each terms.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abbot Thomas is a St Louis native. Harvard and Oxford University educated, Frerking studied Philosophy; he&#8217;s also a Rhodes Scholar. The Abbot is a noted Thomist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saint Louis Abbey operates the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlprioryschool.org\">Priory School<\/a>, Saint Anselm Church and the <a href=\"http:\/\/benedictineoratory.com\/\">Oratory of Saints Gregory and Augustine<\/a>. Abbot Thomas is the father of a monastic community which numbers 30 monks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May God grant, through the intercession of Saints Benedict, Scholastica and all the Benedictine saints and blesseds, the graces needed to lead the monastic community of Saint Louis Abbey.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the monks of Saint Louis Abbey elected for the third time, Abbot Thomas Frerking.&nbsp; Abbot Thomas, 69, was first elected in 1995; he will serve for an 8-year term. The abbots of the English Benedictine Congregation have term limits: you can be elected indefinitely for 8 years each terms. Abbot Thomas is a St &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/thomas-frerking-abbot-re-elect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Frerking, Abbot, re-elected at St Louis Abbey<\/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":[27],"tags":[1848,32089,2483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515"}],"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=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}