{"id":8814,"date":"2002-10-30T08:53:56","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/30\/a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-4\/"},"modified":"2002-10-30T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T13:53:56","slug":"a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A pro-life Novena for the upcoming election (Day 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:33-35<br \/>And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about<br \/>\nhim; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, &#8220;Behold, this child is<br \/>\nset for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken<br \/>\nagainst<br \/>(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also),<\/p>\n<p>Holy Mother of God,<br \/>hear the prayers of the Church<br \/>for all<br \/>\nmothers,<br \/>especially those wearied by life<br \/>and overcome by the<br \/>\nsuffering<br \/>they bear for their children.<br \/>Hail Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>O Mother of the Word Incarnate,<br \/>intercede for them<br \/>from your place in<br \/>\nheaven,<br \/>that the mercy of your divine Son<br \/>might lighten their<br \/>\nburden<br \/>and give them strength.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hail Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pray for All Children<\/i><br \/>The eyes of a child are an infinite well of<br \/>\nlife, hope and goodness. If you doubt the value of life, look into the eyes of a<br \/>\nchild. If you are worn by life&#8217;s worries, look into the eyes of a child. If you<br \/>\nwant to see tomorrow, look into the eyes of a child. And what you will see is<br \/>\nthe divine spark which brought beauty out of chaos, the infinite beauty, which<br \/>\nis the presence of the Creator in his creation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:33-35And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, &#8220;Behold, this child is set for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}