{"id":3177,"date":"2020-07-22T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:34:11","slug":"men-on-a-mission-from-the-port-to-the-pontifical-scots-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Men on a Mission: From the Port to the Pontifical Scots College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ryan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ryan-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ryan-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ryan.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most obvious surprise was the realisation that there was such a thing as a call from God,\u201d he said. \u201cI had never believed in the idea of a call, thinking rather that the good priests I knew had simply chosen to be priests in the same way that people chose to be doctors and nurses, teachers and taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, after I returned from South Africa, I became aware of a niggling feeling, a random thought that would pop up every now and then: what about priesthood? This niggling feeling started popping up so frequently that I thought I would have been actively ignoring it if I did nothing about it. Then, with the help of the vocations director, I realised that this was indeed the way in which God had manifested His call to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/button.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.missioscotland.com\/single-post\/2020\/07\/02\/Men-on-a-Mission-From-the-Port-to-the-Pontifical-Scots-College noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3179 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missioscotland.com\/single-post\/2020\/07\/02\/Men-on-a-Mission-From-the-Port-to-the-Pontifical-Scots-College\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.missioscotland.com\/single-post\/2020\/07\/02\/Men-on-a-Mission-From-the-Port-to-the-Pontifical-Scots-College\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/2018\/9\/button-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-cke-saved-src=\"\/pictures\/2018\/9\/button-1-1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cThe most obvious surprise was the realisation that there was such a thing as a call from God,\u201d he said. \u201cI had never believed in the idea of a call, thinking rather that the good priests I knew had simply chosen to be priests in the same way that people chose to be doctors &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3177\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3178,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","post-3177","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-Pf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ryan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","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=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}