{"id":87514,"date":"2016-08-01T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=87514"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:55:09","slug":"reason-438-why-i-love-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/reason-438-why-i-love-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason 438 why I Love my Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>oday in both the Extraordinary Form and the Benedictine Ordo is the Memorial of the Seven Holy Maccabees. Their story may be found in the Bible<\/a> – provided you’ve got a Catholic or an Orthodox one. Martin Luther removed these books from his Bible – so if you don’t know their story, go read it<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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At the Parish BBQ Yesterday
(Photo by Aileen Leija)<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I happened to mention this to Francine this morning as we were getting ready for work, and without missing a beat she began to sing “Judah the Maccabee” to the tune of Monty Python’s “Eric the Half-a-Bee”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was glorious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We often joke that Pistachio House is the stage for “Thom and Francine: the Musical”. The reason is moments like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The account of the martyrdom of the Seven Holy Maccabees may be found in 2 Maccabees, Chapter 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in both the Extraordinary Form and the Benedictine Ordo is the Memorial of the Seven Holy Maccabees. Their story may be found in the Bible – provided you’ve got a Catholic or an Orthodox one. Martin Luther removed these books from his Bible – so if you don’t know their story, go read it! At the Parish BBQ Yesterday(Photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87515,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francine-my-love","category-fun","category-pistachio-house","category-saint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?fit=582%2C582&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mLw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87869,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/misericordia-et-miseria\/","url_meta":{"origin":87514,"position":0},"title":"Misericordia et Miseria","author":"Thom","date":"21 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For the close of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has released an Apostolic Letter Misericordia et Miseria, \"Mercy and Misery\". 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