{"id":6401,"date":"2021-01-20T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2021-01-20T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:49:32","slug":"joe-biden-becomes-the-second-catholic-president-of-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/joe-biden-becomes-the-second-catholic-president-of-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden becomes the second Catholic President of the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0\" nonce=\"CDFIvwZX\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I expect many of you watched the inauguration this afternoon. The prayer led early in the ceremony by the Jesuit priest who in the past was President of Georgetown University (a Jesuit university) was very moving; he quoted Pope Francis&#8217; recent encyclical &#8216;Fratelli Tutti&#8217;, which we will be looking at as a parish during Lent; and then President Biden, in his address, quoted St Augustine. He and his wife are committed and practising Catholics. Please pray for them, for the Vice President, and for the people of the USA today.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God bless<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Fr Ashley<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6402\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/139973947_10103254190608343_5330278280882061685_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602938479803049&amp;id=773012899462302\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602938479803049&amp;id=773012899462302\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\">St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602938479803049&amp;id=773012899462302\">Wednesday, January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602997196463844&amp;id=773012899462302\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602997196463844&amp;id=773012899462302\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\">St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602997196463844&amp;id=773012899462302\">Wednesday, January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602992879797609&amp;id=773012899462302\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602992879797609&amp;id=773012899462302\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\">St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602992879797609&amp;id=773012899462302\">Wednesday, January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602031316560432&amp;id=773012899462302\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602031316560432&amp;id=773012899462302\"><p>Today the Church honours St Sebastian, shown here, thought to have been martyred in the early fourth century in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\">St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3602031316560432&amp;id=773012899462302\">Wednesday, January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect many of you watched the inauguration this afternoon. The prayer led early in the ceremony by the Jesuit priest who in the past was President of Georgetown University (a Jesuit university) was very moving; he quoted Pope Francis&#8217; recent encyclical &#8216;Fratelli Tutti&#8217;, which we will be looking at as a parish during Lent; and then President Biden, in his address, quoted St Augustine. He and his wife are committed and practising Catholics. Please pray for them, for the Vice President, and for the people of the USA today. God bless Fr Ashley Posted by St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham on\u00a0Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Posted by St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham on\u00a0Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Posted by St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham on\u00a0Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Today the Church honours St Sebastian, shown here, thought to have been martyred in the early fourth century in the&#8230; Posted by St Edmund&#8217;s Church, Beckenham on\u00a0Wednesday, January 20, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}