{"id":442,"date":"2012-01-14T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-01-14T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T19:40:30","slug":"parish-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/2012\/01\/14\/parish-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be part of a parish?<\/h1>\n

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“We had the experience about 11 years ago that our pastor was killed two weeks before Christmas. He was killed in a car wreck two weeks before Christmas. And I heard the news cause one of the musicians heard the news on the radio and she got up earlier than me and she called me about 5:30 in the morning. And he was back for the second time, was very well loved by everybody. He just was a gift to us. The parish was desolate. When I came over in the morning it was a Friday morning. It was the school liturgy morning. And I was getting ready. Came over to church to get ready for mass at 8:00 AM. And there were more than 150 people gathered in church. Not praying, just consoling each other like family. Just milling about consoling each other like it was our living room.<\/p>\n

–Related to me by a 57 year old parishioner in trying to describe his parish and why they felt like family<\/p>\n

What parish stories do you have? \u00a0I’d love to hear them.<\/h1>\n

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Do you have a particularly vivid memory that you would like to share about your parish (or a previous parish that you were a part of)? A story that tells what it means to be a part of a parish…<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be part of a parish?   “We had the experience about 11 years ago that our pastor was killed two weeks before Christmas. He was killed in a car wreck two weeks before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}