{"id":117709,"date":"2022-12-31T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117709"},"modified":"2022-12-31T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:11:13","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-the-gallican-sacramentary-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117709","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Christmas from the Gallican Sacramentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merciful and most loving God, by whose will and bountiful gift Jesus Christ our Lord humbled himself that he might exalt mankind; and became flesh that he might restore in us the most celestial image; and was born of the Virgin that he might uplift the lowly: Grant unto us the inheritance of the meek, perfect us in thy likeness, and bring us at last to rejoice in beholding thy beauty, and with all thy saints to glorify thy grace; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! &#x1f31f; Wishing you all a safe &amp; warm holiday!<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Adoration of the Christ Child,\u201d c. 1500, oil on panel, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5mnlztaw2o\">pic.twitter.com\/5mnlztaw2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (@MFAH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFAH\/status\/1607045387327606784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merciful and most loving God, by whose will and bountiful gift Jesus Christ our Lord humbled himself that he might exalt mankind; and became flesh that he might restore in us the most celestial image; and was born of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117709\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117712,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117709\/revisions\/117712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}