{"id":18172,"date":"2010-02-28T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns-priest_finds_calling_in_bringing_christs_presence_to_wounded_soldiers\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:19:56","slug":"cns-priest_finds_calling_in_bringing_christs_presence_to_wounded_soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18172","title":{"rendered":"CNS&#8211;Priest finds calling in bringing Christ&#39;s presence to wounded soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered &#8220;ministry of presence&#8221; in action as a daily routine.<\/p>\n<p>A chaplain at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Father Stump makes his rounds with one purpose in mind: to invite sick and wounded veterans to encounter the living Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Father Stump is quick in his step and quick with a joke as he goes about his work.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by a reporter on one of his recent rounds, he joked to a Marine on the move down the hallway in a wheelchair to &#8220;watch the speed limit.&#8221; They chatted about the Marine&#8217;s spinal reconstruction surgery. But in a moment, without a break in the informality, the priest prayed over the patient and asked that Jesus &#8220;show his face to you, have mercy on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1000818.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered &#8220;ministry of presence&#8221; in action as a daily routine. A chaplain at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Father Stump makes his rounds with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18172\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,104,106,435,154,184,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-health-medicine","category-military-armed-forces","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}