{"id":5077,"date":"2010-10-17T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html"},"modified":"2010-10-17T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T20:03:17","slug":"in-chile-gracias-a-dios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html","title":{"rendered":"In Chile: “Gracias a Dios”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"r657399_4676439.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>
\nJust days after their dramatic rescue, some of the Chilean miners returned to where it all unfolded to offer prayers of thanksgiving: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nAbout a dozen of the miners rescued in Chile returned to the San Jose mine Sunday for a private ecumenical service with friends and family.<\/p>\n

The miners and their families made a pilgrimage to Camp Hope to sing and pray together, bringing some closure to what many believe was a miraculous event.<\/p>\n

Omar Reygadas, the 17th miner to be rescued, said he came to see where his son kept a vigil while he was trapped underground.<\/p>\n

“I have always said the true heroes are the families who stayed here and the faith that they had,” he said in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Many miners said their fight for survival brought them closer to God — and to the brink of despair.<\/p>\n

“The worst for me was thinking I would never see my family again, that I would never hear them, touch them,” Reygadas said. “And that I had no way of telling them that I was alive and OK down there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s much more at the link<\/a> and here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just days after their dramatic rescue, some of the Chilean miners returned to where it all unfolded to offer prayers of thanksgiving: About a dozen of the miners rescued in Chile returned to the San Jose mine Sunday for a private ecumenical service with friends and family. The miners and their families made a pilgrimage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ripped-from-the-headlines"],"yoast_head":"\nIn Chile: "Gracias a Dios" - The Deacon's Bench<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Chile: "Gracias a Dios" - The Deacon's Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just days after their dramatic rescue, some of the Chilean miners returned to where it all unfolded to offer prayers of thanksgiving: About a dozen of the miners rescued in Chile returned to the San Jose mine Sunday for a private ecumenical service with friends and family. The miners and their families made a pilgrimage…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Deacon's Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-10-17T20:03:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/r657399_4676439-thumb-425x249-18558.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jmcgee\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In Chile: \"Gracias a Dios\" - The Deacon's Bench","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In Chile: \"Gracias a Dios\" - The Deacon's Bench","og_description":"Just days after their dramatic rescue, some of the Chilean miners returned to where it all unfolded to offer prayers of thanksgiving: About a dozen of the miners rescued in Chile returned to the San Jose mine Sunday for a private ecumenical service with friends and family. The miners and their families made a pilgrimage…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html","og_site_name":"The Deacon's Bench","article_published_time":"2010-10-17T20:03:17+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/r657399_4676439-thumb-425x249-18558.jpg"}],"author":"jmcgee","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html","name":"In Chile: \"Gracias a Dios\" - The Deacon's Bench","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/r657399_4676439-thumb-425x249-18558.jpg","datePublished":"2010-10-17T20:03:17+00:00","dateModified":"2010-10-17T20:03:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/bdb748767d0f27ba523435391c927150"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/r657399_4676439-thumb-425x249-18558.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/r657399_4676439-thumb-425x249-18558.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/in-chile-gracias-a-dios.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"In Chile: “Gracias a Dios”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/","name":"The Deacon's Bench","description":"Where a Roman Catholic Deacon Ponders the World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/bdb748767d0f27ba523435391c927150","name":"jmcgee","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b07\/b071769d942178df26e06d8859867b37x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b07\/b071769d942178df26e06d8859867b37x96.jpg","caption":"jmcgee"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/author\/jmcgee"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}