{"id":1196,"date":"2008-09-23T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T22:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weddingsatwork.com\/wawnewsblog\/2008\/09\/23\/papal-blessing-for-your-wedding\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T04:16:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T04:16:39","slug":"papal-blessing-for-your-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/papal-blessing-for-your-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Papal Blessing for your Wedding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gencuad.multiply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weddingsatwork.com\/wawnewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/papal-blessing.jpg\" alt=\"papal-blessing.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\n(photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinolarablog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dino Lara<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Above is a photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/dinolarablog.com\/?p=2124\">Larry &amp; Whally<\/a> who displayed their Papal Blessing Certificate during the ceremony of their August 30 wedding.\u00a0 The couple is one of the numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/waw.weddingsatwork.com\">W@Wie couples<\/a> who got themselves the certificate directly from the Vatican.\u00a0 This was made possible when Gen <em>(ni Rod)<\/em> &#8212; a W@Wie based in Rome &#8212; offered to request the Papal Blessings on the W@Wies behalf.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is a Papal Blessing? Also known as<em> Benediction Papalis<\/em>, this blessing is imparted by the the sitting Catholic Pontiff (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/biography\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_bio_20050419_short-biography_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Benedict XVI<\/a> in this case).\u00a0 It may be requested by Catholics for any occasion such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. The certificate &#8212; beautifully printed on a parchment &#8212; is not the actual blessing from the Holy Father, but only a tangible reminder of it <em>(more info about Papal Blessings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fisheaters.com\/papalblessing.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the volume, <a href=\"http:\/\/gencuad.multiply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gen set-up this multiply site<\/a> to accommodate requests, not just from W@Wies, but to others who might want to receive their own Papal Blessing Certificates or those who want give these as special gifts for the soon-to-weds or their loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo courtesy of Dino Lara) Above is a photo of Larry &amp; Whally who displayed their Papal Blessing Certificate during the ceremony of their August 30 wedding.\u00a0 The couple is one of the numerous W@Wie couples who got themselves the certificate directly from the Vatican.\u00a0 This was made possible when Gen (ni Rod) &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","category-wedding-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingsatwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}