{"id":289,"date":"2013-04-18T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-11-06T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:11:26","slug":"praying-for-the-victims-of-the-boston-marathon-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Praying for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barak Obama joined Boston interfaith leaders for the Healing Our City Prayer Service held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18, 2013, just three days after the bombings.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Former Boston University campus minister Sister Olga Yaqob wipes tears from the face of Li Jing, the roommate of Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi who died in the Boston Marathon bombings at the \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service held April 18 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" src=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_041_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Former Boston University campus minister Sister Olga Yaqob wipes tears from the face of Li Jing, the roommate of Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi who died in the Boston Marathon bombings at the \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service held April 18 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_092.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley joins Boston faith leaders at the \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service to honor those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" src=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_092_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley joins Boston faith leaders at the \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service to honor those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_1261.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"The \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service to honor those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" src=\"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/interfaithprayer_gtracy_1261_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The \u201cHealing Our City\u201d interfaith prayer service to honor those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18.\nPilot photo\/ Gregory L. Tracy\n\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object id=\"ssidx\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.smugmug.com\/ria\/ShizamSlides-2013072402.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"AlbumID=28983619&amp;AlbumKey=XZTKZb&amp;transparent=true&amp;bgColor=&amp;borderThickness=&amp;borderColor=&amp;useInside=&amp;endPoint=&amp;mainHost=cdn.smugmug.com&amp;VersionNos=2013072402&amp;width=425&amp;height=425&amp;clickToImage=true&amp;captions=false&amp;showThumbs=true&amp;autoStart=true&amp;showSpeed=true&amp;pageStyle=white&amp;showButtons=true&amp;randomStart=false&amp;randomize=false&amp;splash=&amp;splashDelay=0&amp;crossFadeSpeed=350\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/cdn.smugmug.com\/ria\/ShizamSlides-2013072402.swf\" flashvars=\"AlbumID=28983619&amp;AlbumKey=XZTKZb&amp;transparent=true&amp;bgColor=&amp;borderThickness=&amp;borderColor=&amp;useInside=&amp;endPoint=&amp;mainHost=cdn.smugmug.com&amp;VersionNos=2013072402&amp;width=425&amp;height=425&amp;clickToImage=true&amp;captions=false&amp;showThumbs=true&amp;autoStart=true&amp;showSpeed=true&amp;pageStyle=white&amp;showButtons=true&amp;randomStart=false&amp;randomize=false&amp;splash=&amp;splashDelay=0&amp;crossFadeSpeed=350\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>See my full coverage for The Pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.pilotcatholicnews.com\/Photogalleries\/Interfaith-Prayer-Service\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barak Obama joined Boston interfaith leaders for the Healing Our City Prayer Service held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston April 18, 2013, just three days after the bombings. &nbsp; &nbsp; See my full coverage for The Pilot here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregorytracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}