{"id":25173,"date":"2009-12-17T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-second-oratio\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:30:28","slug":"christmas-novena-second-oratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-second-oratio\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Novena, Second Oration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">O Hope of the Patriarchs and longing of the Gentiles,<br \/>\nin Your Nativity You have granted us hope. The joy of this hope has called<br \/>\ntogether the Shepherds, the Magi and all believers in Your Holy Name, and led<br \/>\nthem to adore You with all the acclaim of their hearts. We beseech You, through<br \/>\nYour Pure Nativity and through the intercession of Your Virgin Mother and Saint<br \/>\nJoseph, Your Chosen One, to keep us, by Your grace, from attachment to earthly<br \/>\ngoods. Teach us not to depend only on ourselves and the weak ones of this<br \/>\nworld, but to rely only on Your Fatherly direction and Your Divine Providence.<br \/>\nAttract our hearts and minds to reflect on Your heavenly riches and to aspire and<br \/>\nlong for them above. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Hope of the Patriarchs and longing of the Gentiles, in Your Nativity You have granted us hope. The joy of this hope has called together the Shepherds, the Magi and all believers in Your Holy Name, and led them to adore You with all the acclaim of their hearts. We beseech You, through Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-second-oratio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Novena, Second 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":[1827,1875,1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173"}],"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=25173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}