{"id":6595,"date":"2004-08-14T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/14\/working-with-mother-teresa-inspired-lawrence-pastor\/"},"modified":"2004-08-14T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T14:21:42","slug":"working-with-mother-teresa-inspired-lawrence-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/working-with-mother-teresa-inspired-lawrence-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Mother Teresa inspired Lawrence pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Few, however, can claim to have been personally influenced by Mother Teresa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Rev. Sam Mason can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Mason, who recently became assistant to the rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vt., spent four months when he was in his early 20s volunteering to work with Calcutta&#8217;s poor and dying, alongside the nun who has since been beatified by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;I was a goofy, country bumpkin when I met her. I bent over and said, &#8216;Hi, I&#8217;m Sam Mason from Baldwin, Kansas, and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217; And she said, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s nice,&#8217; and patted my cheek,&quot; says Mason, 37.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Mason was in India at the end of 1989 and the early months of 1990, witnessing the kindness extended to those who sought end-of-life care from the Sisters of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The experience changed him, propelling Mason along the path toward becoming an Episcopal priest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;You kind of have to walk the walk if you&#8217;re going to talk the talk. I realized I was a very good Episcopalian but a lousy Christian. I had a really juvenile faith,&quot; Mason says of his early 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;I realized I had to mature in my walk with God and start believing the things I was professing.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/ljworld.com\/section\/satliving\/story\/178436\">Full Story<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ljworld.com\/art\/apps\/pennynews\/1092467260_SamMasonMotherTeresa.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"262\" class=\"post\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few, however, can claim to have been personally influenced by Mother Teresa. The Rev. Sam Mason can. Mason, who recently became assistant to the rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011&hellip;<\/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-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}