{"id":36006,"date":"2020-08-09T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=36006"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:13:52","slug":"st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-4\/","title":{"rendered":"St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36008 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray-580x1024.jpg 580w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray-768x1357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray-869x1536.jpg 869w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross-Peter-W.-Gray.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>Today in the Latin Church is the commemoration of Carmelite St. Teresa Benedicta &#8211; Edith Stein. Addressing himself to the young people gathered for the canonization in 1998, Pope John Paul II recounted the saint&#8217;s decision to reject a possible &#8220;way out&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Do not do it! Why should I be spared? Is it not right that I should gain no advantage from my Baptism? If I cannot share the lot of my brothers and sisters, my life, in a certain sense, is destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The image by Father Peter Willm Gray.<\/p>\n<p>St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Latin Church is the commemoration of Carmelite St. Teresa Benedicta &#8211; Edith Stein. Addressing himself to the young people gathered for the canonization in 1998, Pope John Paul II recounted the saint&#8217;s decision to reject a possible &#8220;way out&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Do not do it! Why should I be spared? Is it not right that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross<\/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":[2160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006"}],"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=36006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36028,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006\/revisions\/36028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}