{"id":30369,"date":"2014-01-31T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30369"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T19:27:33","slug":"saint-john-bosco-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/saint-john-bosco-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John Bosco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/St-John-Bosco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30370 alignleft\" title=\"St John Bosco\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/St-John-Bosco-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/St-John-Bosco-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/St-John-Bosco-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/St-John-Bosco.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The liturgical memorial of Saint John Bosco is prayed today. Bosco, one of the most influential saints in the modern era, has taught us how to be a mentor and friend to young people struggling to be healthy, holy, and happy. For me, it is a Benedictine monk who has re-introduced Bosco&#8217;s good example and <em>modus vivendi<\/em> in his teaching high school that makes sense for today.<\/p>\n<p>From the Office of Readings, \u00a0we read, [Jesus] put up with [the apostles] ignorance and roughness and even their infidelity. He treated sinners with a kindness and affection that caused some to be shocked, others to be scandalised, and still others to hope for God\u2019s mercy. And so he bade us to be gentle and humble of heart.<\/p>\n<p>[In correcting] mistakes we must lay aside all anger and restrain it so firmly that it is extinguished entirely.<\/p>\n<p>There must be no hostility in our minds, no contempt in our eyes, no insult on our lips. We must use mercy for the present and have hope for the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In serious matters it is better to beg God humbly than to send forth a flood of words that will only offend the listeners and have no effect on those who are guilty.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saint John Bosco, teach us to love&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liturgical memorial of Saint John Bosco is prayed today. Bosco, one of the most influential saints in the modern era, has taught us how to be a mentor and friend to young people struggling to be healthy, holy, and happy. For me, it is a Benedictine monk who has re-introduced Bosco&#8217;s good example and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/saint-john-bosco-3\/\" 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\/30369"}],"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=30369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30379,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30369\/revisions\/30379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}