{"id":2687,"date":"2009-01-27T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2009-01-27T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:09:13","slug":"jp2-in-stl-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/01\/27\/jp2-in-stl-10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"JP2 in STL 10 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hockey_pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2688\" title=\"hockey_pope\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hockey_pope-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"hockey_pope\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hockey_pope-237x300.jpg 237w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hockey_pope.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>Ten years ago, the Holy Father paid a pastoral visit to the St. Louis area, home of Shannon and Orin&#8217;s home, at the time, for less than a year. \u00a0At the youth rally, one of the first events of his 30-hour visit, he was presented with a number of gifts, including a St. Louis Blues jersey and a hockey stick, which even in his frail condition he took a swing with. \u00a0It was one of the humorous highlights of his visit.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike today&#8217;s weather, the weather that day was in the 60&#8217;s and quite comfortable, thanks to the prayers (some say) of the local Pink Sisters.<\/p>\n<p>After evening prayer and Mass at the Dome the next morning, the Pope left town. \u00a0St. Louis&#8217;s Archbishop at the time, Justin Rigali, was soon moved to Philadelphia and elevated to Cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>JP2, we love you! \u00a0And continue to pray for us, with the whole of the communion of saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Ten years ago, the Holy Father paid a pastoral visit to the St. Louis area, home of Shannon and Orin&#8217;s home, at the time, for less than a year. \u00a0At the youth rally, one of the first events of his 30-hour visit, he was presented with a number of gifts, including a St. Louis Blues&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/01\/27\/jp2-in-stl-10-years-ago\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-pope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}