{"id":28373,"date":"2013-09-08T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28373"},"modified":"2013-09-08T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T12:24:40","slug":"nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity of Mary, the Mother of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Nat-of-BVM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28374 alignleft\" alt=\"Nat of BVM\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Nat-of-BVM-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Nat-of-BVM-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Nat-of-BVM.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Prayer in honor of Our Lady\u2019s Nativity by Saint Anselm<\/p>\n<p>Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers, through the merits of thy most sacred nativity, which for the entire Christian world was a birth of joy, the hope and solace of its life.<\/p>\n<p>When thou wast born, O most holy Virgin, then was the world made light.<\/p>\n<p>Happy is thy stock, holy thy root, and blessed thy fruit, for thou alone as a virgin, filled with the Holy Ghost, didst merit to conceive thy God, as a virgin to bear Thy God, as a virgin to bring Him forth, and after His birth to remain a virgin.<\/p>\n<p>Have mercy therefore upon me a sinner, and give me aid, O Lady, so that just as thy nativity, glorious from the seed of Abraham, sprung from the tribe of Juda, illustrious from the stock of David, didst announce joy to the entire world, so may it fill me with true joy and cleanse me from every sin.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for me, O Virgin most prudent, that the gladsome joys of thy most helpful nativity may put a cloak over all my sins.<\/p>\n<p>O holy Mother of God, flowering as the lily, pray to thy sweet Son for me, a wretched sinner. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer in honor of Our Lady\u2019s Nativity by Saint Anselm Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers, through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nativity of Mary, the Mother of God<\/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":[26],"tags":[32088,3002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373"}],"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=28373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28375,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions\/28375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}