{"id":7110,"date":"2004-02-07T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/02\/07\/little-sisters-of-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2004-02-07T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T17:16:06","slug":"little-sisters-of-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/02\/little-sisters-of-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Sisters of the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful article<\/a> about a group of nuns belonging to a mendicant order called the “Little Sisters of the Poor” who serve the elderly. The whole article is worth reading even though you have to subscribe (free) to the L.A. Times.<\/p>\n

The headline of this story is “Little Sisters of the Poor Focus on Care for Elderly” and I first I misread the headline and thought this was some Catholic hit piece by calling some nuns Little Sisters of the “Poor Focus.”<\/p>\n

That was only a minor miracle compared with the whopping $12-million contract to build the order’s San Francisco home that Mother Marguerite signed in 1979 — with no money in the bank. The contractor, she said, asked her where the sisters planned to get the money.<\/p>\n

“From St. Joseph,” she calmly replied.<\/p>\n

“The color drained from his face,” she recalled with a laugh. But they never missed a payment to him — or a payroll, she said.<\/p>\n

…She has been especially impressed with the way the Little Sisters help residents through their final moments of life with songs, recitation of the rosary and Bible verses. <\/p>\n

Never ones to waste a begging opportunity, sometimes the sisters whisper a wish into the dying resident’s ear: Please ask God for more nuns when you get to heaven.<\/p>\n

“To be with the dying is a special privilege of our vocation,” Sister Paul said. “These people have one foot in heaven; it’s almost like being halfway there yourself.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beautiful article about a group of nuns belonging to a mendicant order called the “Little Sisters of the Poor” who serve the elderly. The whole article is worth reading even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}