{"id":45,"date":"2009-05-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog2\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-05-03T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:00:00","slug":"vocation-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/vocation-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocation Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/images\/GoodShepherd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/images\/GoodShepherd.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis Fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday (so called by reason of the Gospel read at Mass today). Pope Paul VI designated Good Shepherd Sunday as a World Day of Prayer for Vocations, and it still remains this. It is a fitting day for vocations on account of the Gospel for the Mass: The Shepherd knows the sheep, and calls them by name, and they hear his voice and follow him.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI, in his message for this day, encourages &#8220;faith in the divine initiative&#8221;, which should lead to confident prayer for vocations, as well as inspire the human response of trusting self-abandonment to the shepherd who calls. He sets forth Jesus as the supreme model of complete and trusting adherence to the Father&#8217;s will, the model to whom every consecrated person must look. Also exemplary is the Blessed Virgin Mary&#8217;s generous &#8220;Amen&#8221; to God&#8217;s plan told her through the angel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/messages\/vocations\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20090120_xlvi-vocations_en.html\">Full message at the Vatican website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday (so called by reason of the Gospel read at Mass today). Pope Paul VI designated Good Shepherd Sunday as a World Day of Prayer for Vocations, and it still remains this. It is a fitting day for vocations on account of the Gospel for the Mass: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}