{"id":35513,"date":"2014-12-15T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35513"},"modified":"2014-12-15T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:56:46","slug":"pope-francis-thanked-rita-avila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/15\/pope-francis-thanked-rita-avila\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis thanked Rita Avila"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35514\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/561134_461496867216379_1671207441_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35514\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/561134_461496867216379_1671207441_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rita Avila. Facebook Photo.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/561134_461496867216379_1671207441_n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/561134_461496867216379_1671207441_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/561134_461496867216379_1671207441_n-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rita Avila. Facebook Photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Pope Francis expressed his thanks for the books sent to him by actor-turned-book author Rita Avila, according to a post on the website of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).<\/p>\n<p>Rita received the Pope\u2019s gratitude through a letter from a high-ranking Vatican official.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also invoked the Pope\u2019s blessings on Rita and her husband, director Erick Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Rita Avila, His Holy Father wishes me to express his gratitude for the kind gift of inscribed copies of your books. He appreciates the sentiments which prompted you to share your writings with him. His Holiness will remember you and your husband in his prayers. He invokes upon you God\u2019s blessings of strength and peace,\u201d read the letter from Msgr. Peter Wells, of Vatican Secretariat of State.<\/p>\n<p>Rita\u2019s son Ellia Jesu died after a heart surgery in December 2006.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband received the letter on the same month of their son\u2019s eight death anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, now a writer, sent Pope Francis copies of her books, \u201c8 Ways to Comfort with Grace\u201d and \u201cThe Invisible Wings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the same CBCP post, \u201cThe Invisible Wings,\u201d tells a fable about angels and children, while \u201c8 Ways to Comfort with Grace\u201d is a guide to educate people on how to comfort the grieving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Pope Francis expressed his thanks for the books sent to him by actor-turned-book author Rita Avila, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}