{"id":27423,"date":"2013-01-31T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/saint-john-bosco-2-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:36:55","slug":"saint-john-bosco-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/saint-john-bosco-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John Bosco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Don%20Bosco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Don Bosco.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/01\/Don Bosco-thumb-280x373-13657.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>O God, who raised up the Priest Saint John Bosco as a father and teacher of the young, grant we pray, that, aflame with the same fire of love, we may seek out souls and serve you alone.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; \"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; \">The devotion to Saint John Bosco is not as known on these shores as it ought to be. He was a brilliant, loving and&nbsp;<\/span><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">insightful man. Bosco&#8217;s confidence in God&#8217;s ways is a tremendous consolation: he helps me to recognize the signs God places in front of me with clarity.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; \"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; \"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salesians_of_Don_Bosco\" title=\"Salesians of Don Bosco\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Salesian congregation<\/a> of priests, brothers and sisters is better known in other parts of the world than in the USA. Some say that the popularity of the Jesuits here made covered over the charism of Bosco and the schools his order administered. Not completely sure that is the reason but what is clear to me that not to know about Bosco is an impoverishment. One thing I heard from a Benedictine friend who has taken a shining to Bosco tells me that Bosco&#8217;s &#8220;success&#8221; is that if you want to positively affect the lives of students then you have to be involved in the lives of the students. The ivory tower approach is not going to work.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; \"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; \"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">May the Apostle of the Youth, pray for us.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=56586601-0402-4740-819d-f41ad4b69019\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who raised up the Priest Saint John Bosco as a father and teacher of the young, grant we pray, that, aflame with the same fire of love, we may seek out souls and serve you alone.&nbsp; The devotion to Saint John Bosco is not as known on these shores as it ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/saint-john-bosco-2-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint John Bosco<\/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":[2527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423"}],"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=27423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}