{"id":32247,"date":"2015-05-17T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32247"},"modified":"2015-05-19T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:23:13","slug":"saint-mariam-baouardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/saint-mariam-baouardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mariam Baouardy (St Mary of Jesus Crucified)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/St.-Mariam-Baouardy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32248 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/St.-Mariam-Baouardy-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"St. Mariam Baouardy\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/St.-Mariam-Baouardy-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/St.-Mariam-Baouardy.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>Earlier today in Rome, the Holy Father canonized some new saints. Among the 4 new saints is Saint\u00a0Mariam Baouardy \u00a0(5 January 1846 \u2013 26 August 1878), a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Catholic Church. She was born to Greek Catholic parents in Ibillin, Galilee. Saint Mariam had the distinguished reputation of being a mystic and a person gifted with the\u00a0experience of the holy stigmata (the physical wounds in the hands and feet that Jesus suffered and which redeemed us).<\/p>\n<p>The Pope said of Saint Mariam,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An essential aspect of witness to the risen Lord is\u00a0<em>unity among ourselves, his disciples<\/em>, in the image of his own unity with the Father. Today too, in the Gospel, we heard Jesus\u2019 prayer on the eve of his passion: \u201cthat they may be one, even as we are one\u201d (Jn 17:11). From this eternal love between the Father and the Son, poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (cf. Rom 5:5), our mission and our fraternal communion draw strength; this love is the ever-flowing source of our joy in following the Lord along the path of his poverty, his virginity and his obedience; and this same love calls us to cultivate contemplative prayer. Sister Mariam Baouardy experienced this in an outstanding way. Poor and uneducated, she was able to counsel others and provide theological explanations with extreme clarity, the fruit of her constant converse with the Holy Spirit. Her docility to the Spirit also made her a means of encounter and fellowship with the Muslim world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today in Rome, the Holy Father canonized some new saints. Among the 4 new saints is Saint\u00a0Mariam Baouardy \u00a0(5 January 1846 \u2013 26 August 1878), a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Catholic Church. She was born to Greek Catholic parents in Ibillin, Galilee. Saint Mariam had the distinguished reputation of being a mystic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/saint-mariam-baouardy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Mariam Baouardy (St Mary of Jesus Crucified)<\/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":[45],"tags":[1775,32054],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247"}],"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=32247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32254,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions\/32254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}