{"id":7392,"date":"2003-11-16T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/16\/a-priest-who-takes-st-pauls-words-seriously\/"},"modified":"2003-11-16T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T17:59:20","slug":"a-priest-who-takes-st-pauls-words-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/a-priest-who-takes-st-pauls-words-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"A Priest who takes St. Paul's words seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN LUIS OBISPO – When Maureen Phelan learned that her 79-year-old brother planned to run the Dublin marathon — all 26.2 miles of it — she thought he was crazy.<\/p>\n

“In Ireland, anything can happen,” Phelan said. “A week before the race, we had a whole day of sleet, snow, thunder and rain, all mixed up together.”<\/p>\n

But the Rev. Michael O’Sullivan, retired pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Arroyo Grande, was determined.<\/p>\n

“I was getting old and needed a challenge,” said O’Sullivan, a Nipomo Mesa resident who has been running for years. He had not competed in a marathon, however, for 15 years.<\/p>\n

But with his doctor’s blessing, the slight, white-haired priest took off Oct. 27. And while he was but one in a pack of more than 8,000 runners in Dublin, Ireland, he’s a hometown hero back in San Luis Obispo County.<\/p>\n

Not only did O’Sullivan cross the finish line, completing the course in just over seven hours, he single-handedly raised $20,000 in pledges for the American Cancer Society.
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I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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