{"id":27217,"date":"2013-07-22T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/saint-mary-magdalen\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:44:48","slug":"saint-mary-magdalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/saint-mary-magdalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mary Magdalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Magdalen%20raised%20by%20Angels%20GLanfranco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magdalen raised by Angels GLanfranco.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/Magdalen raised by Angels GLanfranco-thumb-250x349-14836.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"349\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The day dawns, Mary, bright with joy,<\/p>\n<div>The Lord is victor over death;<\/div>\n<div>You hasten to anoint the Christ,<\/div>\n<div>The truth, thought cold and void of breath.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You come in haste but &#8217;tis to hear<\/div>\n<div>A white-robed angel gladly tell,<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The one you&#8217;re seeking rose again,<\/div>\n<div>He broke apart the gates of Hell.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your love requires a greater joy,<\/div>\n<div>You ask the gard&#8217;ner where He lay,<\/div>\n<div>A &#8220;Mary!&#8221; turning see the Lord<\/div>\n<div>Your teacher, Jesus Christ, the Way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tearful Virgin you upheld,<\/div>\n<div>Beneath the cruel gallows tree<\/div>\n<div>And so Christ chose you first of all<\/div>\n<div>As witness of his victory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>O lovely flow&#8217;r of Magdala,<\/div>\n<div>Whose love of Christ earned such apart,<\/div>\n<div>Pray we may also have this gift,<\/div>\n<div>The flame of love within our heart.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lord Jesus, give us such a love,<\/div>\n<div>To olive like Mary all our days,<\/div>\n<div>And so with her in heaven&#8217;s life<\/div>\n<div>To sing your ever-lasting praise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">Text trans. Kenneth Tomkins, OSB, 1992, Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day dawns, Mary, bright with joy, The Lord is victor over death; You hasten to anoint the Christ, The truth, thought cold and void of breath. You come in haste but &#8217;tis to hear A white-robed angel gladly tell, &#8220;The one you&#8217;re seeking rose again, He broke apart the gates of Hell.&#8221; Your love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/saint-mary-magdalen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Mary Magdalen<\/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":[2],"tags":[1710,2382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217"}],"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=27217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}