{"id":37500,"date":"2025-12-31T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=37500"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:22:19","slug":"praying-at-the-end-and-at-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/praying-at-the-end-and-at-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying at the end AND at the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a longstanding Catholic practice to give thanks to God for the graces and blessings of the previous year and then to make petitions for the year to come. Pray the\u00a0<em>Te Deum<\/em>\u00a0(on December 31) as we end 2025\u00a0<strong>and<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Veni, Creator Spiritus<\/em>\u00a0(on January 1) as we begin 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A plenary indulgence with the reception of Confession, the Holy Eucharist and prayers for the Holy Father.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Te Deum<\/em> is also called the Ambrosian Hymn for its association with St Ambrose of Milan. The <em>Veni, Creator Spiritus<\/em> is used at Vespers Pentecost, Confirmation, and whenever the Holy Spirit is solemnly invoked.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray for one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a longstanding Catholic practice to give thanks to God for the graces and blessings of the previous year and then to make petitions for the year to come. Pray the\u00a0Te Deum\u00a0(on December 31) as we end 2025\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Veni, Creator Spiritus\u00a0(on January 1) as we begin 2026. A plenary indulgence with the reception of Confession, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/praying-at-the-end-and-at-the-beginning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Praying at the end AND at the beginning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1895,3069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37500"}],"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=37500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37502,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37500\/revisions\/37502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}