{"id":31,"date":"2020-10-19T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2022-07-24T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:17:37","slug":"our-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/about-us\/our-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reverend Michael A. Geiger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Fr. Mike was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Toledo on June 29, 2002. He became pastor our Most Blessed Sacrament Parish on July 2, 2018.&nbsp;In addition to completing graduate work in education leadership at the University of Dayton, he has served many parishes and schools across the Diocese of Toledo, including Central Catholic High School, the Historic Church of St. Patrick, St. Joseph, Crestline, Sacred Heart, Bethlehem and most recently served as Pastor of Epiphany of the Lord Parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to seminary, he received a degree in Business Administration from Lourdes University and worked in corporate management for ten years. He then&nbsp;entered seminary at age 30 and graduated from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from ministry, his interests include: movies, music (especially the greatest musical decade \u2013 the 80\u2019s!), family, road trips, OSU Buckeyes, and anything having to do with ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Introductory-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to read Fr. Mike introductory letter to our parish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Prayer-before-the-Most-Blessed-Sacrament.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to read the Prayer Before the Most Blessed Sacrament<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Fr.-Michael.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Michael A. Geiger Fr. Mike was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Toledo on June 29, 2002. He became pastor our Most Blessed Sacrament Parish on July 2, 2018.&nbsp;In addition to completing graduate work in education leadership at the University of Dayton, he has served many parishes and schools across the Diocese of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/650"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedsacramenttoledo.diocesanweb.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}