{"id":35755,"date":"2019-12-25T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35755"},"modified":"2019-12-25T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T12:16:06","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nativity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35756 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nativity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a>Sweet Jesus, you chose to be born in humility of a humble handmaiden, who humbly wrapped you in the swaddling clothes of humility and laid you in a manger. Most merciful Lord, grant that the holiness of new life may be reborn in me through the ineffable mystery of your nativity. Thus may I be wrapped in the swaddling clothes of the religious habit and strive to live within the constraints of Christian discipline &#8211; placed as it were in the manger &#8211; to lead me to the summit of true humility. And as you deigned to share in our humanity and mortality, grant that I may share in your divinity and eternity. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>A prayer of Ludolph of Saxony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Jesus, you chose to be born in humility of a humble handmaiden, who humbly wrapped you in the swaddling clothes of humility and laid you in a manger. Most merciful Lord, grant that the holiness of new life may be reborn in me through the ineffable mystery of your nativity. Thus may I be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755"}],"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=35755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35757,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions\/35757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}