{"id":7553,"date":"2011-10-29T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2015-08-20T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T06:36:36","slug":"pope-writes-another-great-blog-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/pope-writes-another-great-blog-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope writes another great blog entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not that<\/em>\u00a0Pope.\u00a0There is a priest in Washington DC whom I have long regarded as my Virtual Chaplain, completely unbeknownst\u00a0to him!<\/p>\n

Virtual Internet Pastor<\/h2>\n

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During my years of wandering I lacked a spiritual director or even a regular parish (this blog isn’t called “Restless Pilgrim”<\/em> for nothing!).\u00a0During those wilderness years I had a three month stint in Washington DC and, towards the end of my time there, I discovered Msgr. Pope’s parish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I greatly enjoyed my visits – my exposure to gospel music until then had been limited, but I loved the enthusiastic singing I heard there. What impressed me most though was the preaching…<\/p>\n

Msgr. Pope’s homilies were of good length,\u00a0exegetical,\u00a0impassioned and practical. I had often been critical of the standard of\u00a0homilies\u00a0in the Catholic world and hearing this kind of preaching was a breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n

After my visa expired I left Washington DC and continued my wanderings around England and the USA. Fortunately, I soon discovered Msgr. Pope’s blog<\/a>, together with his homily recordings<\/a> and podcast feed<\/a>. This meant that whether I was living in London, San Diego or somewhere in between, I received the same teaching. It was like having a regular pastor again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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As I Am<\/h2>\n

I bring this up because today while eating my lunch I was catching up on my blog reading and saw a recent post from Msgr. Pope entitled\u00a0On the Myopia of Low Self-Esteem:\u00a0“Coming to accept ourselves as God has made us”<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve personally attempted to write a post on this very subject a couple of times now, but found it too difficult, causing my half-completed entry to languish interminably\u00a0in my “Drafts” folder.\u00a0I’ve now deleted it and posted this one instead,\u00a0linking to the Monseigneur’s article<\/a>. Believe me, you’ll be significantly more edified by\u00a0his words rather than my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not that\u00a0Pope.\u00a0There is a priest in Washington DC whom I have long regarded as my Virtual Chaplain, completely unbeknownst\u00a0to him! Virtual Internet Pastor During my years of wandering I lacked a spiritual director or even a regular parish (this blog isn’t called “Restless Pilgrim” for nothing!).\u00a0During those wilderness years I had a three month stint in Washington DC and,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34,2969,364,622],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-beauty","tag-featured","tag-msgr-pope","tag-self-esteem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58792,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}