{"id":24129,"date":"2020-03-30T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/polonia-adotta-un-medico\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:03:59","slug":"polonia-adotta-un-medico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-adotta-un-medico\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: \u201cAdopt a Doctor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The friars of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow) have started taking part in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Adopt a Doctor&#8221;<\/span> initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This initiative consists of a commitment to pray daily for a person engaged in healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic. The choice of who that person should be is left to the Lord.<br \/>\nThis effort began in response to a letter from a doctor, who during her medical studies remained tied to the academic pastoral care of one of the friaries of the Province. \u201cFollowing the development of the situation,\u201d she wrote, \u201call I can do is ask you for prayer. I ask that you spiritually adopt a health worker through prayer: a doctor, a nurse, a technician, a hospital employee, etc. Any form of prayer is fine, as long as it is done regularly.\u201d<br \/>\nThe initiative has resonated widely through the media. Among those encouraging its practice is the Most Reverend Artur MIZI\u0143SKI, Secretary General of the Conference of the Polish Episcopate: &#8220;Let us show our appreciation for the great dedication of health workers,\u201d the Archbishop said, \u201clet us pray for them and their families and show them our gratitude and support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan Maria SZEWEK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The friars of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow) have started taking part in the &#8220;Adopt a Doctor&#8221; initiative. This initiative consists of a commitment to pray daily for a person engaged in healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic. The choice of who that person should be is left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}