{"id":187,"date":"2019-04-15T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2024-07-21T04:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T04:00:42","slug":"fr-george-blais","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/?page_id=187","title":{"rendered":"Fr. George Blais"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/frgeorge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\n        Fr. George is a native of Manchester, N.H. He is the 5th child \nof ten and moved with his family to Garden Grove, Ca. when he was 16 \nyears old. They attended St. Columban Parish.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u00a0\u00a0     Upon graduating from Bolsa Grande High School, Fr. George  began working in various fields from factory work to being a data  analyst for TRW. During this time, he attended night classes at Santa  Ana Jr. College and Cal State Fullerton, where he majored in Business  Administration.<br>In 1983, he transferred to St. John\u2019s Seminary College  in Camarillo, CA. and was ordained for the Diocese of Orange on June 9,  1990.<br>Fr. George began his priesthood career at Blessed Sacrament Parish  in Westminster. He also served at Our Lady Queen of Angels &#8211; Newport  Beach, Santiago de Compostela &#8211; Lake Forest, St. Timothy &#8211; Laguna  Niguel, St. Mary &#8211; Fullerton, and St. Joachim\u2019s in Costa Mesa.<br>His personal Mission: To help all people to identify their God given gifts and talents and encourage and empower them to use these gifts for the greater glory of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Director of Saint John Paul II Polish Center in Yorba Linda, 2006-2008<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. George is a native of Manchester, N.H. He is the 5th child of ten and moved with his family to Garden Grove, Ca. when he was 16 years old. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/4406"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishcenter.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}