{"id":10423,"date":"2012-09-12T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:56:51","slug":"j-christopher-stevens-requiescat-in-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/09\/j-christopher-stevens-requiescat-in-pace.html","title":{"rendered":"J. Christopher Stevens, Requiescat in Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_10424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10424\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/09\/J._Christopher_Stevens.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10424 \" title=\"J._Christopher_Stevens\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/09\/J._Christopher_Stevens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"319\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Ben Curtis\/Associated Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Prayers for the repose of the soul of Ambassador <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/193075.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">J. Christopher Stevens<\/a>, and for the souls of the others killed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-09-12\/u-s-envoy-to-libya-killed-as-protests-flare-in-north-africa.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attack on the U.S. Consulate<\/a> in Benghazi, Libya.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God of the spirits and of all flesh,\u2028who have trampled death and annihilated the devil\u2028and given life to your world, may you yourself,<\/p>\n<p>O Lord, grant to the soul of your deceased servants \u2028J. Christopher Stevens and companions, rest in a place of light, a verdant place,\u2028a place of freshness, from where suffering,\u2028pain and cries are far removed.<\/p>\n<p>Do You, O good and compassionate God\u2028forgive every fault committed by them in word,\u2028work or thought because there is no man\u2028who lives and does not sin.<br>\nYou alone are without sin and your justice\u2028is justice throughout the ages and your word is truth.<\/p>\n<p>Since you, O Christ our God, are the resurrection,\u2028the life and the repose of your deceased servants,\u00a0Christopher Stevens and companions,<br>\nwe give you glory together with your un-begotten Father\u2028and your most holy, good and life-creating Spirit,\u2028now and always and forever and ever.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Ed Morrisey, from<em><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/09\/12\/cbs-libyan-security-team-fingered-us-ambassador-to-be-killed\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Hot Air<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>has an update as well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers for the repose of the soul of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and for the souls of the others killed in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. God of the spirits and of all flesh,\u2028who have trampled death and annihilated the devil\u2028and given life to your world, may you yourself, O Lord, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41],"tags":[51,31,552,553,32,11],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-praying","tag-history","tag-in-the-news","tag-libya","tag-mourning","tag-passings","tag-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>J. 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