{"id":26770,"date":"2011-12-06T06:52:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/saint-nicholas-2\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:35:43","slug":"saint-nicholas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/saint-nicholas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Nicholas%20GBellini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St Nicholas GBellini.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/12\/St Nicholas GBellini-thumb-300x614-10647.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The liturgical memorial of Saint Nicholas observed today is an opportunity to reflect on our reliance on others as we go onto the Lord as a community, people who have regard for another. The sainted bishop Nicholas of Myra (Turkey) reminds us of our reception of unmerited grace given by God.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray for sailors, orphans and pawnbrokers. I&#8217;d also like to remember Melkite Bishop Nicholas Samra on his feast day.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Church prays&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>We humbly implore your mercy, Lord: protect us in all dangers through the prayers of the Bishop Nicholas, that the way of salvation may lie open before us.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>(RM 2011)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The liturgical memorial of Saint Nicholas observed today is an opportunity to reflect on our reliance on others as we go onto the Lord as a community, people who have regard for another. The sainted bishop Nicholas of Myra (Turkey) reminds us of our reception of unmerited grace given by God. Let us pray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/saint-nicholas-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Nicholas<\/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":[1851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26770"}],"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=26770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29161,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26770\/revisions\/29161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}