{"id":26928,"date":"2012-04-02T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/good-friday-is-now-a-holiday-i\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:19:59","slug":"good-friday-is-now-a-holiday-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/good-friday-is-now-a-holiday-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday is now a holiday in Cuba, following Pope&#8217;s request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>77<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>442<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>3<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>542<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">The Holy See Press Office Director Jesuit Father Federico<br \/>\nLombardi said this morning in Rome that &#8220;The fact that the Cuban authorities<br \/>\nhave immediately accepted the request made by the Holy Father to President Raul<br \/>\nCastro, declaring next Good Friday a holiday, is certainly a very positive<br \/>\nsign. The Holy See hopes that this will facilitate participation in religious<br \/>\ncelebrations and favor a happy Easter holiday. It also hopes that the Holy<br \/>\nFather&#8217;s visit may continue to produce fruits for the good of the Church and of<br \/>\nall Cubans.&#8221;<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy See Press Office Director Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said this morning in Rome that &#8220;The fact that the Cuban authorities have immediately accepted the request made by the Holy Father to President Raul Castro, declaring next Good Friday a holiday, is certainly a very positive sign. The Holy See hopes that this will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/good-friday-is-now-a-holiday-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Friday is now a holiday in Cuba, following Pope&#8217;s request<\/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":[62],"tags":[2948,2949,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928"}],"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=26928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}