{"id":268,"date":"2012-12-06T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2012-12-06T21:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:54:47","slug":"vigil-of-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-december-7th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/vigil-of-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-december-7th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 7th., 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AVE REGINA CAELORUM<\/p>\n<p>Hail, O Queen of heaven enthroned!<br \/>\nHail, by angels Mistress owned<br \/>\nRoot of Jesse, Gate of Morn,<br \/>\nWhence the world&#8217;s true Light was born.<br \/>\nGlorious Virgin, joy to thee,<br \/>\nLoveliest whom in heaven they see:<br \/>\nFairest thou where all are fair,<br \/>\nPlead with Christ our sins to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I was watching the Lord of the Rings, which is an exposition in fable of the Catholic faith, so rich in symbolism and magnificently filmed, and I remembered a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien which I share with you now&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;All my own perception of beauty, both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.&#8221;  How true!  Let us pray and prepare our hearts for the great graces that come with this holy season.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVE REGINA CAELORUM Hail, O Queen of heaven enthroned! Hail, by angels Mistress owned Root of Jesse, Gate of Morn, Whence the world&#8217;s true Light was born. Glorious Virgin, joy to thee, Loveliest whom in heaven they see: Fairest thou where all are fair, Plead with Christ our sins to spare. Recently I was watching the Lord of the Rings,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/vigil-of-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-december-7th-2012\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-glorious-virgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}