{"id":224,"date":"2010-03-04T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/rosaries-for-ruthie.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:42:28","slug":"rosaries-for-ruthie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/rosaries-for-ruthie.html","title":{"rendered":"Rosaries for Ruthie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, how about this: <a href=\"http:\/\/redcardigan.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/rosaries-for-ruthie.html\">our old friend Erin Manning is organizing a campaign to pray the rosary for my cancer-stricken sister Ruthie Leming during Lent<\/a>. (More about Ruthie&#8217;s situation and the amazing way she&#8217;s handling it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/this-bright-sadness.html\">at this link<\/a>.) So far, she&#8217;s got five good people who have agreed to do so. I&#8217;m so touched and grateful &#8212; and will be passing the news on to Ruthie and others in my family. Thanks so much Erin &amp; Co. You have no idea how much this means to the Lemings (seen below), and to we who love them.<br \/>\nBy the way, Ruthie started chemo today. And did you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/profile.php?id=100000630385656&amp;ref=search&amp;sid=654380550.436019706..1\">she has a Facebook page<\/a>?<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lemingclas.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/lemingclas.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n(Photo courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanniefreyrhodes.com\/\">Jeannie Frey Rhodes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, how about this: our old friend Erin Manning is organizing a campaign to pray the rosary for my cancer-stricken sister Ruthie Leming during Lent. (More about Ruthie&#8217;s situation and the amazing way she&#8217;s handling it at this link.) So far, she&#8217;s got five good people who have agreed to do so. I&#8217;m so touched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rosaries for Ruthie - Rod Dreher<\/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\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/rosaries-for-ruthie.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rosaries for Ruthie - Rod Dreher\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, how about this: our old friend Erin Manning is organizing a campaign to pray the rosary for my cancer-stricken sister Ruthie Leming during Lent. 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