{"id":27166,"date":"2012-09-12T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/prayer-participates-in-christs\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:57:04","slug":"prayer-participates-in-christs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/prayer-participates-in-christs\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer participates in Christ&#8217;s coming in glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>134<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>766<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>6<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>940<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Prayer enables us to discern the events of history in<br \/>\nthe light of God&#8217;s plan for the spread of his Kingdom. That plan is symbolized<br \/>\nby the book closed with seven seals which only the Lamb, the crucified and<br \/>\nrisen Lord, can open. In prayer, we see that Christ&#8217;s final victory over sin<br \/>\nand death is the key to all history. While giving thanks for this victory, we<br \/>\ncontinue to beg God&#8217;s grace for our earthly journey. Amid life&#8217;s evils, the<br \/>\nLord hears our prayers, strengthens our weakness, and enables us to trust in<br \/>\nhis sovereign power. The Book of Revelation concludes with Jesus&#8217; promise that<br \/>\nhe will soon come, and the Church&#8217;s ardent prayer &#8220;Come, Lord<br \/>\nJesus!&#8221;. In our own prayer, and especially in our celebration of the<br \/>\nEucharist, may we grow in the hope of Christ&#8217;s coming in glory, experience the<br \/>\ntransforming power of his grace, and learn to discern all things in the light<br \/>\nof faith.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Pope Benedict XVI&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">General Audience<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">12 September 2012<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer enables us to discern the events of history in the light of God&#8217;s plan for the spread of his Kingdom. That plan is symbolized by the book closed with seven seals which only the Lamb, the crucified and risen Lord, can open. In prayer, we see that Christ&#8217;s final victory over sin and death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/prayer-participates-in-christs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayer participates in Christ&#8217;s coming in glory<\/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":[32],"tags":[1791,2036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166"}],"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=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}