{"id":35209,"date":"2018-09-02T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35209"},"modified":"2018-09-03T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:12:50","slug":"benedictine-oblates-at-the-time-of-church-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/benedictine-oblates-at-the-time-of-church-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedictine Oblates at the time of Church crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Exposition-of-the-Blessed-Sacrament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35210 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Exposition-of-the-Blessed-Sacrament-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Exposition-of-the-Blessed-Sacrament-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Exposition-of-the-Blessed-Sacrament-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The St. Meinrad Oblates from the greater NYC area gathered as you know, for the 78th annual retreat this past weekend. As part of our Spiritual Exercises we have a Eucharistic Holy Hour. This year we prayed during this time for the Church which is currently in crisis as the consequence of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up, for the victims and victimizers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Litany of the Sacred Heart that stand out:<\/p>\n<p>Heart of Jesus, source of justice and love<br \/>\nHeart of Jesus, full of goodness and love<br \/>\nHeart of Jesus, well-spring of all virtue<br \/>\nHeart of Jesus, worthy of all praise<br \/>\nHeart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts<\/p>\n<p>Employing the intercession of the Blessed Mother, St. Benedict and all Benedictine saints and blesseds, we asked for a renewal of the Church: laity and clergy alike.<\/p>\n<p>This is a time of prayer, penance and works of charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Meinrad Oblates from the greater NYC area gathered as you know, for the 78th annual retreat this past weekend. As part of our Spiritual Exercises we have a Eucharistic Holy Hour. This year we prayed during this time for the Church which is currently in crisis as the consequence of clergy sexual abuse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/benedictine-oblates-at-the-time-of-church-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benedictine Oblates at the time of Church crisis<\/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":[27],"tags":[32091,2349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209"}],"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=35209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35211,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209\/revisions\/35211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}