{"id":5129,"date":"2015-09-24T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2015-09-24T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:30:02","slug":"voices-and-images-of-trinity-reflect-on-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2015\/09\/voices-and-images-of-trinity-reflect-on-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices and Images of Trinity Reflect on Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the Pope’s Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine, Trinity students offered these reflections and photos:<\/p>\n

“Today’s event has been a blessing!\u00a0 I feel nothing but joy!\u00a0 I feel so blessed to witness history. As an educator, I have witnessed the Pope’s humble affect on the poor, marginal, and the exceptional.\u00a0 This humbleness gives me the courage and aspirations to become an educational leader that will make a difference in the lives of our future citizens.\u00a0 God Bless America!”<\/em> (Natalie McCollum)<\/p>\n

Sophomore Ayantu Jinfessa took these photos of monks praying outside the Shrine and the people perched on Trinity’s hillside:<\/p>\n

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Senior Airen Washington captioned her photos below this way:\u00a0 “Student (Senior) Kirsten Collins\u00a0and (Senior )Airen Washington\u00a0actually experienced seeing the Holy Father Third Pope Francis at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception! There was such a wave of tranquility and thankfulness as we watched his Popemobile ride by”<\/p>\n

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MBA student Maria Williams writes about “…the once in a lifetime opportunity to see Pope Francis conduct the service today. Witnessing the mass and so many people coming together was a life changing experience that words cannot describe. In those few hours I gleaned what it means to be for the people, serve the people and love unconditionally. It’s time for me to implement changes in my life to reach my biggest purpose.”\u00a0 <\/em>Maria sent these photos:<\/p>\n

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Silvia Medina Balcazar sent these photos:<\/p>\n

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Do you have reflections, opinions, photos or other comments about your experience of seeing and watching Pope Francis this week?\u00a0 Send them to president@trinitydc.edu <\/a>and I will publish them on this blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trinity students, faculty and trustees all were deeply moved by seeing and experiencing the presence of Pope Francis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1551,1554,1165],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-popeindc","tag-popeinusa","tag-pope-francis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}