{"id":34919,"date":"2017-12-24T20:20:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T00:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34919"},"modified":"2017-12-24T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T22:22:45","slug":"gods-mercy-reaches-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/gods-mercy-reaches-us\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s mercy reaches us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34920 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nativity-Adoration-FBartolo.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Let Your goodness Lord appear to us, that we,<br \/>\nmade in your image, conform ourselves to it.<br \/>\nIn our own strength<br \/>\nwe cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder<br \/>\nnor is it fitting for us to try.<br \/>\nBut Your mercy reaches from the heavens<br \/>\nthrough the clouds to the earth below.<br \/>\nYou have come to us as a small child,<br \/>\nbut you have brought us the greatest of all gifts,<br \/>\nthe gift of eternal love<br \/>\nCaress us with Your tiny hands,<br \/>\nembrace us with Your tiny arms<br \/>\nand pierce our hearts with Your soft, sweet cries.<\/p>\n<p>a Christmas Prayer attributed to Saint Bernard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let Your goodness Lord appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder nor is it fitting for us to try. But Your mercy reaches from the heavens through the clouds to the earth below. You have come to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/gods-mercy-reaches-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God&#8217;s mercy reaches us<\/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":[1875,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34919"}],"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=34919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34921,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34919\/revisions\/34921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}