{"id":37101,"date":"2024-04-26T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=37101"},"modified":"2024-05-04T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:16:46","slug":"the-transitus-of-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/the-transitus-of-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transitus of a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After several months of prolonged sickness and more than 8 years of thrice weekly kidney dialysis, my friend of 37 years, Chorbishop Joseph Francis Kaddo made his transition to the Lord of Life, today at 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

Joe was a Maronite priest from Troy, NY, who served as the founding pastor of two parishes, pastor of a few of a more, a former Vicar General for two Maronite bishops and the friend of many.<\/p>\n

My love of the Eastern Church came through Joe Kaddo through our long years of friendship. Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n

This is the final picture of the two of us on 30 December 2023, just a few hours before being admitted to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Joe’s funeral rites will be on Sunday and Monday, 5-6 May 2024 at St. Anthony of the Desert Church, Fall River, MA. He will be laid to rest with his parents in Troy.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Chorbishop Joseph Francis Kaddo’s obituary is posted here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

May the Lord forgive his sins and admit him the beatific vision.<\/p>\n

May Joe’s memory be eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After several months of prolonged sickness and more than 8 years of thrice weekly kidney dialysis, my friend of 37 years, Chorbishop Joseph Francis Kaddo made his transition to the Lord of Life, today at 4:30 a.m. Joe was a Maronite priest from Troy, NY, who served as the founding pastor of two parishes, pastor … Continue reading The Transitus of a friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37101"}],"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=37101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37115,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37101\/revisions\/37115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}