{"id":25166,"date":"2009-12-16T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-first-oration\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:45:29","slug":"christmas-novena-first-oration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-first-oration\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Novena, First Oration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\">O<br \/>\nBeautiful One in splendor, fairer than the children of this world, in Your<br \/>\ninexplicable love for us, You became a man to show us the invisible beauty of<br \/>\nYour Divinity in the splendor of Your visible body, which You have taken from<br \/>\nthe Virgin Mary.&nbsp; By this, You have attracted us to Your Divine Love, You,<br \/>\nBeloved of the Father and Only Delight of His Heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\">We beseech You, through<br \/>\nYour Pure Nativity and through the intercession of Your Virgin Mother and Saint<br \/>\nJoseph, Your Chosen One, to enkindle Your love in our hearts and enlighten our<br \/>\nminds with the rays of Your heavenly grace, that we may love You with our whole<br \/>\nheart and mind.&nbsp; May we love everyone in You and for You, You, Who alone<br \/>\nare worthy of the love of all hearts. Amen.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Beautiful One in splendor, fairer than the children of this world, in Your inexplicable love for us, You became a man to show us the invisible beauty of Your Divinity in the splendor of Your visible body, which You have taken from the Virgin Mary.&nbsp; By this, You have attracted us to Your Divine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-first-oration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Novena, First Oration<\/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":[53],"tags":[1875,1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166"}],"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=25166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}