{"id":2338,"date":"2009-05-24T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2009-05-24T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T17:52:42","slug":"today-is-the-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/today-is-the-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the Day of Prayer for the Church in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/happycatholic.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/may-24-is-day-of-prayer-for-church-in.html\">Julie, who passes on this prayer composed by Benedict XVI:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virgin Most Holy, Mother of the Incarnate Word and our Mother,<br \/>\nvenerated in the Shrine of Sheshan under the title \u201cHelp of Christians\u201d,<br \/>\nthe entire Church in China looks to you with devout affection.<br \/>\nWe come before you today to implore your protection.<br \/>\nLook upon the People of God and, with a mother\u2019s care, guide them<br \/>\nalong the paths of truth and love, so that they may always be<br \/>\na leaven of harmonious coexistence among all citizens.<br \/>\nWhen you obediently said \u201cyes\u201d in the house of Nazareth,<br \/>\nyou allowed God\u2019s eternal Son to take flesh in your virginal womb<br \/>\nand thus to begin in history the work of our redemption.<br \/>\nYou willingly and generously cooperated in that work,<br \/>\nallowing the sword of pain to pierce your soul,<br \/>\nuntil the supreme hour of the Cross, when you kept watch on Calvary,<br \/>\nstanding beside your Son, who died that we might live.<br \/>\nFrom that moment, you became, in a new way,<br \/>\nthe Mother of all those who receive your Son Jesus in faith<br \/>\nand choose to follow in his footsteps by taking up his Cross.<br \/>\nMother of hope, in the darkness of Holy Saturday you journeyed<br \/>\nwith unfailing trust towards the dawn of Easter.<br \/>\nGrant that your children may discern at all times,<br \/>\neven those that are darkest, the signs of God\u2019s loving presence.<br \/>\nOur Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China,<br \/>\nwho, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love.<br \/>\nMay they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world,<br \/>\nand of the world to Jesus.<br \/>\nIn the statue overlooking the Shrine you lift your Son on high,<br \/>\noffering him to the world with open arms in a gesture of love.<br \/>\nHelp Catholics always to be credible witnesses to this love,<br \/>\never clinging to the rock of Peter on which the Church is built.<br \/>\nMother of China and all Asia, pray for us, now and for ever. Amen!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip: Julie, who passes on this prayer composed by Benedict XVI: Virgin Most Holy, Mother of the Incarnate Word and our Mother, venerated in the Shrine of Sheshan under the title \u201cHelp of Christians\u201d, the entire Church in China looks to you with devout affection. We come before you today to implore your protection.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/today-is-the-da\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today is the Day of Prayer for the Church in China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-requests","category-the-christian-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}