{"id":26794,"date":"2011-12-23T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/catholic-priest-at-the-south-p\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:15:17","slug":"catholic-priest-at-the-south-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/catholic-priest-at-the-south-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest at the South Pole for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Steve%20Rossetti%20at%20the%20South%20Pole%20Christmas%202011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Rossetti at the South Pole Christmas 2011.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/12\/Steve Rossetti at the South Pole Christmas 2011-thumb-300x168-10746.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Father Steve Rossetti, a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse (NY) and a professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, is spending the Christmas holiday at the South Pole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How many people do you know who would opt for a holiday at the South Pole where on a good day it is 24 degrees? On a bad day, you could just be stuck there&#8230;. Honestly, I dot know many people who would go on this type of adventure. Father Rossetti&#8217;s at the South Pole because of friendship, first with God, then with the workers and with himself. Friendship that says I am a part of something greater than myself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To me, Father Rossetti is giving us an example of what it means to be self-giving, a gesture of true charity which shows Christ&#8217;s concern for others. Going to the South Pole is more than a charitable work. It is a way of being, a way of standing in awe at the Divine Majesty. Why is this important to me? Because it reminds me (the act educates me) to the fact of the Incarnation as a given to human history: we are given.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The story <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/23\/my-faith-an-unexpected-christmas-at-south-pole\/\">is here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Steve Rossetti, a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse (NY) and a professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, is spending the Christmas holiday at the South Pole.&nbsp; How many people do you know who would opt for a holiday at the South Pole where on a good day it is 24 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/catholic-priest-at-the-south-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catholic priest at the South Pole for Christmas<\/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":[47],"tags":[2222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794"}],"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=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}