{"id":1898,"date":"2012-04-26T05:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2016-10-10T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:55:28","slug":"learning-about-church-from-bishop-cupich-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/learning-about-church-from-bishop-cupich-on-facebook","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Church from Bishop Cupich on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our bishop, Bishop Blase Cupich, is visiting Rome this week for an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quinquennial_Visit_Ad_Limina\"><em>ad limina<\/em><\/a> visit. In a first for the Diocese of Spokane, he&#8217;s using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Catholic-Diocese-of-Spokane\/116335971744555\">Facebook<\/a> to share his journey with the rest of us. It&#8217;s been a great learning experience for me and for my students.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning I wake up and check Facebook to see what I can share with the 8th graders \u00a0during Religion class. After morning prayer and attendance, I bring up the diocesan Facebook page on the screen and we see what&#8217;s new from Rome. Bishop Cupich&#8217;s reflections and pictures have led to some great teachable moments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve discussed what an <em>ad limina<\/em> visit is;<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;ve seen pictures of the tomb of St. Paul;<\/li>\n<li>and we&#8217;ve learned about seminarians from Spokane and how some of them study at the Pontifical North American College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because of a generous gift from Pope Benedict to Bishop Cupich, we&#8217;ve also had the opportunity to learn more about pectoral crosses:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1908\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1908\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1908\" title=\"BishopCupich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Cupich receives a gift from Pope Benedict\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope-451x300.jpg 451w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Cupich receives a gift from Pope Benedict<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1899\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pectoralcross1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1899\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1899\" title=\"pectoralcross1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pectoralcross1-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"A Gift from Pope Benedict\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pectoralcross1-500x666.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pectoralcross1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pectoralcross1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new pectoral cross<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I wonder what&#8217;s in store for the rest of the week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our bishop, Bishop Blase Cupich, is visiting Rome this week for an ad limina visit. In a first for the Diocese of Spokane, he&#8217;s using Facebook to share his journey with the rest of us. It&#8217;s been a great learning experience for me and for my students. Each morning I wake up and check Facebook to see what I can share with the 8th graders \u00a0during Religion class. After morning prayer and attendance, I bring up the diocesan Facebook page on the screen and we see what&#8217;s new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[324,72,325,326,323,194],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholiceducation","category-teaching","tag-ad-limina","tag-bishop-blase-cupich","tag-facebook","tag-pectoral-cross","tag-rome","tag-vatican"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bishopandpope.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-uC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}