{"id":2546,"date":"2011-05-08T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T20:03:53","slug":"even-celibate-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/even-celibate-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Even celibate women can be mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/catholic-news\/US.php?id=3154#ixzz1LnFYFhMX\">From EWTN News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cMotherhood is woman&#8217;s crowning glory,\u201d said Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, OP, \u201cwhether it is physical, spiritual, or both.\u201d<br \/>\nSr. Joseph Andrew is the vocations director for the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Despite her calling to the celibate life, she sees her vocation, and the vocations of other religious sisters, as truly motherly.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is through the consecration of my vows that all the spaces inside my heart are available and ready to be filled with the sons and daughters God sends me.\u201d<br \/>\nThe \u201cspaces\u201d refer to what Blessed John Paul II called the \u201cfeminine genius\u201d in which a woman \u201ccarries a space inside her for the other.\u201d This, according to Sr. Joseph Andrew, is woman&#8217;s greatest gift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: \u201cMotherhood is woman&#8217;s crowning glory,\u201d said Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, OP, \u201cwhether it is physical, spiritual, or both.\u201d Sr. Joseph Andrew is the vocations director for the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Despite her calling to the celibate life, she sees her vocation, and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/even-celibate-w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even celibate women can be mothers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminine-genuises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}