{"id":98178,"date":"2020-12-31T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98178"},"modified":"2020-12-31T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T23:18:09","slug":"bernard-of-clairvaux-on-christmas-gladdening-sorrow-fortifying-fear-saving-passion-vivifying-death-empowering-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98178","title":{"rendered":"Bernard of Clairvaux on Christmas: &#8216;gladdening sorrow, fortifying fear, saving passion, vivifying death, empowering weakness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cshort length, narrow breadth, lowly height, shallow depth. . . . unshining light, unspeaking word, thirsting water, hungering bread. . . . might requiring government; wisdom, instruction; power, aid; God suckling, but reinvigorating the angels; God squalling, but comforting the afflicted. . . . gladness [about] to be sorrowful; courage, to be terrified; well-being, to suffer; life, to die; strength, to be enfeebled. . . . gladdening sorrow, fortifying fear, saving passion, vivifying death, empowering weakness&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), Homily 2.9 as translated by Steve Perisho<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! &#8211; Nativity Scene from British Library MS Stowe 12 f. 16v <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qo3LhwCMiq\">pic.twitter.com\/Qo3LhwCMiq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Medieval Warfare (@MedWarMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MedWarMag\/status\/812938522772590592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2016<\/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>\u201cshort length, narrow breadth, lowly height, shallow depth. . . . unshining light, unspeaking word, thirsting water, hungering bread. . . . might requiring government; wisdom, instruction; power, aid; God suckling, but reinvigorating the angels; God squalling, but comforting the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98178\">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":[575,162,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology","category-church-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98178","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=98178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98180,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98178\/revisions\/98180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}