{"id":29482,"date":"2013-12-02T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29482"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:11:11","slug":"watch-thou-o-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/watch-thou-o-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Thou, O Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Perhaps you would like to join me in praying this prayer following the prayers at evening (Vespers) each night. It echoes the theme of &#8220;keeping watch&#8221; with Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Evening Prayer of Saint Augustine<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Watch Thou, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Thine Angels and Saints charge over those who sleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">O Lord Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tend Thy sick ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rest Thy weary ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bless Thy dying ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soothe Thy suffering ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pity Thy afflicted ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shield Thy joyful ones,<\/p>\n<p>And all for Thy love\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Evening Prayer Antiphon:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake,<br \/>\nwatch over us as we sleep,<br \/>\nthat awake, we may keep watch with Christ,<br \/>\nand asleep, rest in his peace.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you would like to join me in praying this prayer following the prayers at evening (Vespers) each night. It echoes the theme of &#8220;keeping watch&#8221; with Christ. Evening Prayer of Saint Augustine Watch Thou, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Thine Angels and Saints charge over those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/watch-thou-o-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch Thou, O Lord<\/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":[2103,2061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29482"}],"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=29482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29483,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29482\/revisions\/29483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}