{"id":25177,"date":"2009-12-24T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-ninth-oration\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:19:10","slug":"christmas-novena-ninth-oration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-ninth-oration\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Novena, Ninth Oration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">O God, Who in Your very nature contain all the riches<br \/>\nof heaven and earth, You loved the poverty of humanity by choosing to become<br \/>\none of us. You are the descendant of Kings and the Heir of David the Venerable.<br \/>\nYou were satisfied to be born in a stable and a humble manger. We beseech You,<br \/>\nthrough Your Pure Nativity and through the intercession of Your Mother and Saint<br \/>\nJoseph, Your Chosen One, to grant us an appreciation of voluntary poverty.<\/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;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">May<br \/>\nwe be satisfied with only that which is necessary for the maintenance of our lives.<br \/>\nTeach us to flee from excessive luxury and the love of abundance all the days<br \/>\nof our lives. Amen.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, Who in Your very nature contain all the riches of heaven and earth, You loved the poverty of humanity by choosing to become one of us. You are the descendant of Kings and the Heir of David the Venerable. You were satisfied to be born in a stable and a humble manger. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/christmas-novena-ninth-oration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Novena, Ninth 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\/25177"}],"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=25177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}