{"id":1214,"date":"2017-05-13T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2017-05-13T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:48:09","slug":"message-from-your-chaplain-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/message-from-your-chaplain-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from your Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dear Brother Knights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We are still in the Easter season and will be until the great feast of Pentecost. \u00a0Certainly there are signs around us of Resurrection as we enter firmly into spring.\u00a0 As William Jennings Bryan wrote<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: large;\">To every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a resurrection.\u00a0 If the Father designs to touch with divine power the cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn, and make it burst forth from its prison wall, will he leave neglected the soul of man, who is made in the image of the Creator?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The doctrine of the resurrection is the central doctrine of our faith. \u00a0Our belief in the resurrection gives our lives meaning and direction, and offers us hope.\u00a0 Belief in the resurrection gives us hope to face all the circumstances of our lives. \u00a0It touches our lives here and now, here and everywhere.\u00a0 Even in our suffering and the little deaths that we face, there are little resurrections.\u00a0 This is what we call the Paschal mystery that we celebrate at each mass, and find present in our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I want to thank you for the honour guards that you will be supplying for Confirmation coming up and also the weekend that the Bishop is here for the open house.\u00a0 I want to thank you for all that you do in our church and in our community.\u00a0 Rose Sunday will take place on Mother\u2019s Day and I thank you for that as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">During this Easter season let all of us open our hearts to the miracle of the resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Your Chaplain,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fr. Dick Bester<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brother Knights, We are still in the Easter season and will be until the great feast of Pentecost. \u00a0Certainly there are signs around us of Resurrection as we enter firmly into spring.\u00a0 As William Jennings Bryan wrote \u201cTo every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a resurrection.\u00a0 If the Father designs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/message-from-your-chaplain-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Message from your Chaplain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplains-message","category-june-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/kofc1431.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}