{"id":2149,"date":"2019-01-30T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2019-01-28T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T18:49:22","slug":"100-year-old-alumnus-featured-in-national-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2019\/01\/30\/100-year-old-alumnus-featured-in-national-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"100-year-old alumnus featured in national publication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawrence Girard ’58 serves eight Masses a week as a deacon. Photo by Luke Armstrong for the National Catholic Register.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lawrence Girard ’58 is a man of faith.<\/p>\n

As a deacon at Dearborn Heights’ St. Sebastian Church, he serves eight masses a week. Not bad for a man who turned 100 years old in November. This remarkable man is the subject of an article in the National Catholic Register this week.<\/p>\n

The article \u2014 which can be read in its entirety<\/a> on the National Catholic Register website \u2014 is filled with Girard’s words of wisdom, along with his insights on how and why he serves.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding up at the altar serving Mass helps me to pray,” he told the Register. “As long as I am going to Mass, I want to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to serving Mass, Deacon Girard attends almost every parish event, the Register reports. \u201cHe\u2019s always on the go; a real witness, especially to older people,\u201d Father Walter Ptak of St. Sebastian said. \u201cHe has such a positive spirit and keeps going forward, proclaiming the Gospel and living it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawrence Girard ’58 is a man of faith. As a deacon at Dearborn Heights’ St. Sebastian Church, he serves eight masses a week. Not bad for a man who turned 100 years old in November. This remarkable man is the subject of an article in the National Catholic Register this …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2019\/01\/COL_lede_Deacon_Girard_2.jpg?fit=682%2C358&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-yF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}