{"id":69,"date":"2009-09-20T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:57:05","slug":"conversation-with-my-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/conversation-with-my-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with my Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> had an interesting conversation with my pastor this morning.<\/p>\n

Francine and I are sacristans at our parish, and I am a lector while she is a member of the Sodality of St. Frances.<\/p>\n

The entire archdiocese will be launching a program related to CatholicsComeHome.org<\/a>, and we’ve been asked to chair our parish’s efforts. I’m not sure what our jobs will actually entail, but I’m very excited at the prospect.<\/p>\n

And yet, I feel perhaps I am being called to something… else. So I had an interesting conversation with my pastor this morning.<\/p>\n

More on this subject after the Christmas season, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an interesting conversation with my pastor this morning. Francine and I are sacristans at our parish, and I am a lector while she is a member of the Sodality of St. Frances. The entire archdiocese will be launching a program related to CatholicsComeHome.org, and we’ve been asked to chair our parish’s efforts. I’m not sure what our jobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85691,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/notes-on-the-transitions-number-4-in-a-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":0},"title":"Notes on the Transitions, Number 4 in a Series","author":"Thom","date":"14 August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, the Holy Rosary and Visitation parish Transition Teams met together for the first time. 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