{"id":1516,"date":"2018-01-25T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:54","slug":"the-best-step-youll-ever-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"The Best Step You&#8217;ll Ever Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop-president of Priests for Scotland encourages all young people to discern their vocations.<!--more-->Bishop John Keenan, bishop of the Diocese of Paisley and the president of Priests for Scotland, has made an appeal<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1517 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Priests-for-Scotland-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Priests-for-Scotland-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Priests-for-Scotland-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Priests-for-Scotland.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> to young people around the country and the world to consider their vocations in life.<\/p>\n<p>In a short video entitled &#8216;The Best Step You&#8217;ll Ever Make&#8217;, the bishop talks about his own vocation story, reflecting on the moment when he &#8216;gave in to God&#8217; and turned his back on a career as a lawyer. He explains that God has had a plan for every person since before the &#8216;Big Bang&#8217;, and encourages young people to think about vocations to marriage and family life, the priesthood and religious life.<\/p>\n<p>To see the video, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7_1L-ateJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to visit the YouTube page of Sancta Familia Media Group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop-president of Priests for Scotland encourages all young people to discern their vocations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-1516","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-catholic-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-os","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Priests-for-Scotland.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}