{"id":24931,"date":"2009-09-14T05:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T09:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T05:45:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T09:45:37","slug":"feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaltation of the Holy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cross%2C%20San%20Francesco%2C%20Arezzo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cross, San Francesco, Arezzo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/09\/Cross, San Francesco, Arezzo-thumb-275x381-4574.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"381\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">God the Father has exalted<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jesus Christ, the Lord of all,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Who has emptied self of glory,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Took our human nature&#8217;s thrall;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In obedience, He was humbled<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Taking even cross and death;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now creation shouts in wonder<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Christ is Lord&#8221; with ev&#8217;ry breath!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As the Cross is boldly<br \/>\nlifted<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And the faithful now embrace<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What was once a thing so shameful,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now the hope of all our race,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Let us, marked with Cross, and<br \/>\nbaptized,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Shout this news throughout the earth:<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Through the Cross, our God has conquered!<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Through it, come to His new birth!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">87.87. D, no tune<br \/>\nsuggested<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">James Michael Thompson, (c) 2009, World Library Publications<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God the Father has exalted Jesus Christ, the Lord of all, Who has emptied self of glory, Took our human nature&#8217;s thrall; In obedience, He was humbled Taking even cross and death; Now creation shouts in wonder &#8220;Christ is Lord&#8221; with ev&#8217;ry breath! As the Cross is boldly lifted And the faithful now embrace What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exaltation of the Holy Cross<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17],"tags":[1755,32093,1758,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}