{"id":8829,"date":"2002-11-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/1969\/12\/31\/a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-7\/"},"modified":"2002-11-02T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/a-pro-life-novena-for-the-upcoming-election-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A pro-life Novena for the upcoming election (Day 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 31:2-3, 3-4, 5-6<br \/>Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou<br \/>\na rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! Yea, thou art my rock and<br \/>\nmy fortress; for thy name&#8217;s sake lead me and guide me, take me out of the net<br \/>\nwhich is hidden for me, for thou art my refuge. Into thy hand I commit my<br \/>\nspirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. Thou hatest those who pay<br \/>\nregard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Hail Mary&#8230;<\/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>Hail Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Holy Cross<\/i><br \/>Each time I pray, I<br \/>\nam called to join my prayer with Christ&#8217;s perfect prayer upon the cross. It is<br \/>\neasy from the vantage of the cross to see the world clearly. To see how easy it<br \/>\nis to join the suffering of the innocent to the suffering of him who is without<br \/>\nsin. We should work for an end to all the forms of violence which threaten life.<br \/>\nThat is a wonderful good. But it is even more important to stand with the Virgin<br \/>\nMother and to beg her son to come to our aid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 31:2-3, 3-4, 5-6Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! Yea, thou art my rock&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","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=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}