{"id":35537,"date":"2020-05-03T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35537"},"modified":"2019-06-03T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:08:54","slug":"the-lambs-high-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/the-lambs-high-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lamb&#8217;s high feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Lamb\u2019s high feast we sing praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide flowing from his pierced side.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Praise we him whose love divine gives his sacred Blood for wine, Gives his body for the feast: Love, the Victim; Love, the Priest.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Where the Paschal Blood is shed, Death\u2019s dark Angel sheathes his sword; Israel\u2019s host triumphant go through the wave that drowns the foe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christ, the Lamb, whose Blood was shed, Paschal Victim, Paschal Bread; With sincerity and love, eat we manna from above.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mighty Victim from the sky, powers of hell beneath thee lie; Death is conquered in the fight, Thou has brought us life and light.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now thy banner Thou dost wave; vanquished Satan and the grave; Angels join his praise to tell, see o\u2019erthrown the prince of hell.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paschal triumph, Paschal joy, only sin can these destroy; From the death of sin set free souls re-born, O Lord, in Thee.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hymns of glory, songs of praise, Father, unto Thee we raise; Risen Lord, all praise to Thee, ever with the Spirit be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014 Ambrosian Hymn, 7th Century<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Lamb\u2019s high feast we sing praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide flowing from his pierced side.\u00a0 Praise we him whose love divine gives his sacred Blood for wine, Gives his body for the feast: Love, the Victim; Love, the Priest.\u00a0 Where the Paschal Blood is shed, Death\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/the-lambs-high-feast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lamb&#8217;s high feast<\/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":[69],"tags":[2102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35537"}],"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=35537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35538,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35537\/revisions\/35538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}