{"id":475,"date":"2008-03-06T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/on-a-mission.html"},"modified":"2008-03-06T23:47:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T23:47:25","slug":"on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/on-a-mission.html","title":{"rendered":"On a mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (Friday) will be an interesting day around here. Everyone over the age of 6 is either coming or going, and also coming is, rumor has it, yet one more blast of snow. I really hope it stays south of here. Good weather in Chicago is essential to the machinery running smoothly.
\nMichael’s been in northern California, at the parish of the blogging Precious Blood Fr. Jeffrey Keyes<\/a>, who took him on a tour of the new, still a-building Cathedral of Christ the Light<\/a>. Fr. Keyes passed along some photos, so here you go – the time difference and the timing of the mission and the other activities means that I’ve not really heard much from Michael, but here’s the evidence that he was there:
\n\"Oakland<\/a>
\nAnd the interior of the Cathedral:
\n\"Oakland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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