{"id":2439,"date":"2014-10-04T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:46:05","slug":"fr-benedict-groeschel-cfr-rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, Rest in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend Theresa contacted me this morning with the news that Fr. Benedict had died last night. I&#8217;ve posted about him more than a few times &#8211; if you type his name in the search box, I&#8217;m sure stuff will come up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c6ed1839970b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11810\" title=\"Benedict groeschel 32607\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Brigid and myself &#8211; well he had a great influence on us. We&#8217;ve known him for close to 25 years. I called Brigid &#8211; she is still in England &#8211; and she was out playing with one of her grand-nephews. She said &#8220;It&#8217;s sad. But he had an amazing life.&#8221; And Brigid is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more sometime in the next few days &#8211; in the meantime you can find information here &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/lifenet\/2014\/10\/fr-benedict-groeschel-cfr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, Rest in Peace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Theresa contacted me this morning with the news that Fr. Benedict had died last night. I&#8217;ve posted about him more than a few times &#8211; if you type his name in the search box, I&#8217;m sure stuff will come up. I cried. For Brigid and myself &#8211; well he had a great influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}