{"id":34111,"date":"2016-10-03T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34111"},"modified":"2016-10-04T07:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:30:41","slug":"st-theodore-guerin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/st-theodore-guerin\/","title":{"rendered":"St Theodore Guerin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Saint-Mother-Theodore-Guerin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34112 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Saint-Mother-Theodore-Guerin-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"saint-mother-theodore-guerin\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A little known saint in these parts is an American woman called Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Today is her liturgical commemoration.\u00a0Mother Theodore is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana. For the time being, Saint Theodore&#8217;s liturgical devotion is restricted to the dioceses\u00a0in Indiana. \u00a0She is a recognized saint of the Church, and her ability to assist us in our efforts to live holy lives is well documented.\u00a0She was known for her great trust in God\u2019s Providence and her holiness of life.<\/p>\n<p>In October 1840, Mother Theodore and a group of sisters was invited from France to\u00a0Indiana to serve in this portion of the Lord&#8217;s Kingdom. Travel to the USA and to Indiana caused them great hardships. And their challenges did not end there. Mother Theodore had many requests for her small community to serve the needs of the\u00a0new diocese in Indiana. Mother\u00a0Theodore\u00a0and her sisters set to work serving those in their neighborhood, and quickly set to work establishing schools for the poor.\u00a0 On a personal level, she suffered many hardships, from the severe conditions of their rugged dwellings to personal health problems that eventually led to an early death in 1856.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Mother Theodore, Pray for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little known saint in these parts is an American woman called Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Today is her liturgical commemoration.\u00a0Mother Theodore is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana. For the time being, Saint Theodore&#8217;s liturgical devotion is restricted to the dioceses\u00a0in Indiana. \u00a0She is a recognized saint of the Church, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/st-theodore-guerin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Theodore Guerin<\/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":[31905],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111"}],"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=34111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34113,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111\/revisions\/34113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}