{"id":3971,"date":"2011-05-01T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/a-priests-prayer-to-blessed-jo\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:08:09","slug":"a-priests-prayer-to-blessed-jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/a-priests-prayer-to-blessed-jo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Priest&#8217;s Prayer to Blessed John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/giovanni-paolo-ii_1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2011\/05\/giovanni-paolo-ii_1978-thumb-420x339-9152.jpg\" alt=\"giovanni-paolo-ii_1978.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I have prayed this little prayer daily for the past five years. Recently, my good friend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins proposed that I include in this prayer a phrase to express the singular place of total consecration to Our Lady in the life of Blessed John Paul II. Here, then, is the prayer with the phrase, &#8220;through total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Holy Father John Paul,<br \/>\nbe a father to my soul;<br \/>\npray for me,<br \/>\nprotect me,<br \/>\ninstruct me,<br \/>\nand guide me in the way of holiness,<br \/>\nthrough total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary.<br \/>\nObtain for me the gift of perfect chastity,<br \/>\nburning love for the Eucharist,<br \/>\ntotal dedication to Christ and to the Church,<br \/>\nand the grace to live, always and everywhere,<br \/>\nin a manner worthy<br \/>\nof the priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have prayed this little prayer daily for the past five years. Recently, my good friend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins proposed that I include in this prayer a phrase to express the singular place of total consecration to Our Lady in the life of Blessed John Paul II. Here, then, is the prayer with the <\/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":[33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priesthood","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-123","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971"}],"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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}