{"id":144334,"date":"2026-04-02T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144334"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:26:17","slug":"alone-thou-goest-forth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144334","title":{"rendered":"Alone thou goest forth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is this thy sorrow nought to us who pass unheeding by?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>till through our pity and our shame love answers love\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is earth\u2019s darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Agony in the Garden, from a 14th-century Book of Hours. Christ is alone, the apostles sleeping, but in the darkness behind him a gallery of medieval faces &#8211; kings and queens and ordinary people &#8211; keeps vigil with him through the night.<br><br>(BL Yates Thompson MS. 13) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jFMFSzhPQZ\">pic.twitter.com\/jFMFSzhPQZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/2039801932018049248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow nought to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144334\">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":[570,183,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144334","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=144334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144337,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144334\/revisions\/144337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}