St John Henry Newman\u2019s 1849 poem \u201cCandlemas\u201d:<\/p>\n
THE Angel-lights of Christmas morn,
\nWhich shot across the sky,
\nAway they pass at Candlemas,
\nThey sparkle and they die.<\/p>\n
Comfort of earth is brief at best,
\nAlthough it be divine;
\nLike funeral lights for Christmas gone,
\nOld Simeon\u2019s tapers shine.<\/p>\n
And then for eight long weeks and more,
\nWe wait in twilight grey,
\nTill the high candle sheds a beam
\nOn Holy Saturday.<\/p>\n
We wait along the penance-tide
\nOf solemn fast and prayer;
\nWhile song is hush\u2019d, and lights grow dim
\nIn the sin-laden air.<\/p>\n
And while the sword in Mary\u2019s soul
\nIs driven home, we hide
\nIn our own hearts, and count the wounds
\nOf passion and of pride.<\/p>\n
And still, though Candlemas be spent
\nAnd Alleluias o\u2019er,
\nMary is music in our need,
\nAnd Jesus light in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St John Henry Newman\u2019s 1849 poem \u201cCandlemas\u201d: THE Angel-lights of Christmas morn, Which shot across the sky, Away they pass at Candlemas, They sparkle and they die. Comfort of earth is brief at best, Although it be divine; Like funeral lights for Christmas gone, Old Simeon\u2019s tapers shine. And then for eight long weeks and … Continue reading Candlemas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2614,32085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36238"}],"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=36238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36240,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36238\/revisions\/36240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}