{"id":27599,"date":"2013-03-27T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-oils\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:41:20","slug":"the-blessing-of-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-oils\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Oils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Henry%20J.%20Mansell%20blesses%20Holy%20Oils%2026%20March%202013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Henry J. Mansell blesses Holy Oils 26 March 2013.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/03\/Henry J. Mansell blesses Holy Oils 26 March 2013-thumb-400x300-14073.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>The rites for blessing the Oils used in sacraments always fills me with joy and wonder at how the Lord uses creation to communicate Himself. The rich sacramentality given by the Church concretizes the promise of Jesus to be present to us at all times, and in every way. The Holy Oils are symphony of grace. In the picture, Hartford archbishop <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_J._Mansell\" title=\"Henry J. Mansell\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Henry J. Mansell<\/a>, STL, mixes balsam before he consecrates the key Holy Oil, Chrism, 26 March 2013, at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><font style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">Picture courtesy of <i>The Catholic Transcript<\/i>.<\/font><\/div>\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=77294dd1-bd7d-43e8-a293-cfebed97d2d8\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rites for blessing the Oils used in sacraments always fills me with joy and wonder at how the Lord uses creation to communicate Himself. The rich sacramentality given by the Church concretizes the promise of Jesus to be present to us at all times, and in every way. The Holy Oils are symphony of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-oils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blessing of Oils<\/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":[76],"tags":[32105,3154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599"}],"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=27599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}