{"id":58,"date":"2016-11-02T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:28:47","slug":"christ-candle-of-hope-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/2016\/11\/02\/christ-candle-of-hope-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Candle of Hope Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God, our loving Father, you sent your Son,<br \/>\nJesus Christ, into this world to counter<br \/>\nall the forces of evil: sin, suffering and death,<br \/>\nand to overcome evil with the force of good;<br \/>\nhatred with the power of love,<br \/>\nyour great love for us in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Help us never to curse the darkness,<br \/>\nbut to join with you in bringing<br \/>\nYour light into this world,<br \/>\nthe light that is your Son,<br \/>\nborn of the Virgin Mary, in Bethlehem.<br \/>\nHelp us to be instruments of your light<br \/>\nand love by doing one special act of kindness<br \/>\nor by being your special instrument<br \/>\nof reconciliation this New Year.<\/p>\n<p>May the Christ Candle we light symbolize<br \/>\nour desire to bring light into a world of darkness<br \/>\nand hope into a world of despair.<br \/>\nWe ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, our loving Father, you sent your Son, Jesus Christ, into this world to counter all the forces of evil: sin, suffering and death, and to overcome evil with the force of good; hatred with the power of love, your great love for us in Jesus. Help us never to curse the darkness, but to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}