{"id":3827,"date":"2010-07-12T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/a-gift-the-icon-of-our-father\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:22:02","slug":"a-gift-the-icon-of-our-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/a-gift-the-icon-of-our-father\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift: The Icon of Our Father Saint Benedict"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the afternoon of Saturday, 10 July, the vigil of the feast of Our Holy Father Saint Benedict, the Loper family — Dr. Tracy (an Oblate of the monastery), his wife Rebecca, and their sons Antonio, and Nicholas — arrived at the monastery to present us with a gift. You can imagine our astonishment and our joy when they asked us to go into the oratory, and Antonio unveiled a magnificent icon of Saint Benedict. The Loper family commissioned this icon for our monastery. It now hangs on the Epistle side of the sanctuary.
\n\"SBI4.jpg\"<\/a>
\nWe gathered around the new icon and sang an antiphon from the Office Saint Benedict:
\nO thou pattern of life celestial,
\nour Teacher, and Leader Benedict,
\nwhose spirit now rejoices with Christ in the heavens:
\npreserve thy flock, kindly Shepherd;
\nstrengthen them by thy holy prayer;
\nand on a way made clear by thee their guide,
\nmake them enter heaven.
\n(Antiphon on Magnificat at Second Vespers)<\/small>
\n\"SBI<\/a>
\nFrom right to left: Fr. Prior, Nicholas Loper, Br. Thomas, Antonio Loper, Dr. Tracy Loper, Br. Ansgar (Mt. Angel Abbey). Photo by Rebecca Loper.
\n\"SBI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the afternoon of Saturday, 10 July, the vigil of the feast of Our Holy Father Saint Benedict, the Loper family — Dr. Tracy (an Oblate of the monastery), his wife Rebecca, and their sons Antonio, and Nicholas — arrived at the monastery to present us with a gift. You can imagine our astonishment and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastery-of-our-lady-of-the-cenacle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-ZJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}