{"id":27073,"date":"2012-07-13T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/saint-henry-king-and-benedicti\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:43:51","slug":"saint-henry-king-and-benedicti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/saint-henry-king-and-benedicti\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Henry, king and Benedictine Oblate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Henry%20Oblate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Henry Oblate.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/07\/St Henry Oblate-thumb-152x216-12145.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"216\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The feast of King Saint Henry (972-1024) always brings with it a keen remembrance of the commitment one makes as an Benedictine Oblate: seeking God unreservedly. The offering of oneself to God as a Benedictine oblate is a singular grace to take the gift of one&#8217;s humanity seriously as God has given it with the express desire to totally adore Him who makes us.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As this German king and Holy Roman Emperor he knew that holiness was possible in everyday life. You might say he was a monk without the monastic enclosure to God&#8217;s work in the every day.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A prior post on Saint Henry on <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2011\/07\/saint-henry-benedictine-oblate.html\"><i>Communio<\/i> is here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Benedictine Father Mark Kirby speaks well of good King Saint Henry <a href=\"http:\/\/vultus.stblogs.org\/2011\/07\/saint-henry-emperor-and-benedi.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let&#8217;s join with Saint Frances of Rome and Saint Henry in prayer for the grace of seeking God in all that we do, and in every place and time.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feast of King Saint Henry (972-1024) always brings with it a keen remembrance of the commitment one makes as an Benedictine Oblate: seeking God unreservedly. The offering of oneself to God as a Benedictine oblate is a singular grace to take the gift of one&#8217;s humanity seriously as God has given it with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/saint-henry-king-and-benedicti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Henry, king and Benedictine Oblate<\/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":[36,28],"tags":[32091,1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27073"}],"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=27073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}