{"id":27770,"date":"2013-06-03T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/the-anniversary-of-death-of-po\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:16:39","slug":"the-anniversary-of-death-of-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/the-anniversary-of-death-of-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of death of Pope John XXIII, the Mosul martyrs, and a Trappist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/John%2023%20death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"John 23 death.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/06\/John 23 death-thumb-285x184-14524.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In daily life most of occasionally remember the passing of a loved with a visit to the cemetery, saying a prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul, perhaps having a Mass offered for the loved. These are normal Catholic practices in remembering the dead. But when you are a pope similar things happen, but just like with loved ones, there comes a point that we just don&#8217;t actively remember anymore. Do we actively remember the dead? In my family, I think I am the only one to keep the memory of loved ones known, and try to beg God for mercy on the dead. This is a sad stage in our the evolving of our society.<\/p>\n<p>Today happens to be anniversary of death that I am recalling, four people from widely different backgrounds and vocations:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romereports.com\/palio\/june-3rd-marks-50-years-since-the-death-of-john-xxiii-the-good-pope-english-10185.html#.UayqHJWffL8\">Blessed Pope John XXIII<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s 50 years since his death<\/li>\n<li>Aunt Helen, 2002<\/li>\n<li>Dom Basil Pennington, OCSO, monk, abbot, and author, Spencer, MA, 2005<\/li>\n<li>Father Raghed Ganni and 3 subdeacons killed in Mosul, Iraq, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>John XXIII, was the supreme pontiff less than 5 years, was the smiling pope who called the Second Vatican Council, Aunt Helen was a wife and mother, Dom Basil was a Trappist monk of St Joseph&#8217;s Abbey, Spencer, MA who was a prolific writer on the spiritual life and on Cistercian life, and Father Raghed Ganni and the subdeacons we gunned down for being Christian in a context of Islamic persecution. Of note, pilgrims from Blessed John&#8217;s native region in Italy will be at Mass today and meet with Pope Francis. It is a good thing to remember our loved ones. They still are a part of our lives; they make up our DNA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let&#8217;s offer a prayer for all these people asking God the Father of Mercies to be gentle and loving. But let&#8217;s ask these people to ask God to bestow mercy upon us.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In daily life most of occasionally remember the passing of a loved with a visit to the cemetery, saying a prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul, perhaps having a Mass offered for the loved. These are normal Catholic practices in remembering the dead. But when you are a pope similar things happen, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/the-anniversary-of-death-of-po\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anniversary of death of Pope John XXIII, the Mosul martyrs, and a Trappist<\/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":[4,32],"tags":[2316,2118,1860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770"}],"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=27770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30143,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions\/30143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}