{"id":6790,"date":"2004-10-26T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/10\/26\/election-novena-day-3\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:12:31","slug":"election-novena-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/10\/election-novena-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Novena (Day 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">John 19:25-27<br \/>\nSo the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother&#8217;s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag&#8217;dalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, &quot;Woman, behold, your son!&quot; Then he said to the disciple, &quot;Behold, your mother!&quot; And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Holy Mother of God,<br \/>\nhear the prayers of the Church<br \/>\nfor all mothers,<br \/>\nespecially those wearied by life<br \/>\nand overcome by the suffering<br \/>\nthey bear for their children.<br \/>\nHail Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">O Mother of the Word Incarnate,<br \/>\nintercede for them<br \/>\nfrom your place in heaven,<br \/>\nthat the mercy of your divine Son<br \/>\nmight lighten their burden<br \/>\nand give them strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Hail Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Glory to the Father&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Pray for Fathers at the Birth of their Child<br \/>\n&quot;<br \/>\nAt first I was petrified,&quot; Jon told me. &quot;Petrified that I would faint or get in the way or not know what to do to help Sarah. But then I prayed to Mary. I know, praying to Mary is something you&#8217;d think a mother would be doing. But somehow, I think Mary understood Saint Joseph more than anyone else. She probably saw the fear in his eyes and sensed the restlessness of his heart. She probably spent a lot of time praying for him as well. And when I prayed to Mary for my child about to be born, I knew she understood and heard me and prayed for me to her son. At first I was petrified, and then I put everything into God&#8217;s hands.&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}