{"id":27328,"date":"2012-12-06T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/saint-nicholas-3\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:33:15","slug":"saint-nicholas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/saint-nicholas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Nicholas%2C%20Turkish%20mosaic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St Nicholas, Turkish mosaic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/12\/St Nicholas, Turkish mosaic-thumb-300x246-13377.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><i>We humbly\u00a0<\/i><i>implore your mercy, Lord: protect us in all dangers through the prayers of the\u00a0<\/i><i>Bishop Saint Nicholas, that the way of salvation may lie open before us.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s saint restores the human dignity to his people and brings supernatural light to them, that is, he carries Jesus Christ to others.<\/p>\n<p>Most people today have lost sight of who the real Nicholas is: he moves from being a bishop, one who offers the Divine Liturgy, wonder-worker, and a man of great charity in his teaching truth and helping the poor. We recognize in Saint Nicholas today not a man love and adherence to Christ but someone who represents insipidity. Nicholas is far from the commercial mindset. Hopefully we can target the reality and sweep away silliness.<\/p>\n<p>Two Benedictines who blog give a little more insight into Saint Nicholas:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/dec-6th-st-nicholas-of-bari.html\">Dom David<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vultus.stblogs.org\/2010\/12\/saint-nicholas.html\">Dom Mark Daniel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We humbly\u00a0implore your mercy, Lord: protect us in all dangers through the prayers of the\u00a0Bishop Saint Nicholas, that the way of salvation may lie open before us. Today&#8217;s saint restores the human dignity to his people and brings supernatural light to them, that is, he carries Jesus Christ to others. Most people today have lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/saint-nicholas-3\/\" 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\/27328"}],"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=27328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29159,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328\/revisions\/29159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}