{"id":6808,"date":"2013-10-04T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2013-10-04T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:09:47","slug":"where-there-is-darkness-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6808","title":{"rendered":"Where There Is Darkness, Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi today, I post a painting from the series of Washington National Cathedral, where this coming Sunday <a title=\"Blessing of the Animals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcathedral.org\/events\/Animals2013.shtml#.Uk7G0BzCrrs\" target=\"_blank\">you can take your pet to be blessed<\/a> in honor of that kindly friend of all living creatures.<\/p>\n<p>I also post below the well-known <em>Prayer of St. Francis<\/em>, which might come in handy at this time if distributed among the less law-abiding members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ArchesStainedGlass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6811\" alt=\"ArchesStainedGlass\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ArchesStainedGlass.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ArchesStainedGlass.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ArchesStainedGlass-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;<br \/>\nwhere there is hatred, let me sow love;<br \/>\nwhere there is injury, pardon;<br \/>\nwhere there is doubt, faith;<br \/>\nwhere there is despair, hope;<br \/>\nwhere there is darkness, light;<br \/>\nand where there is sadness, joy.<\/p>\n<p>O Divine Master,<br \/>\ngrant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;<br \/>\nto be understood, as to understand;<br \/>\nto be loved, as to love;<br \/>\nfor it is in giving that we receive,<br \/>\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned,<br \/>\nand it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014St. Francis of Assisi<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CakeCarrots.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6582\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"CakeCarrots\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CakeCarrots.png\" width=\"130\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Dominique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi today, I post a painting from the series of Washington National Cathedral, where this coming Sunday you can take your pet to be blessed in honor of that kindly friend of all living creatures. I also post below the well-known Prayer of St. Francis, which might<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=6808\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[62,47,23,19,42],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-catholic","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-poem","tag-saints"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}