{"id":1671,"date":"2016-03-25T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/good-friday\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:00:42","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Il Fratello<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is good<br \/>\nFriday<br \/>\nAnd the hands of the church<br \/>\nHold me<br \/>\nAs I walk over these stones<br \/>\nWe cannot do much<br \/>\nBut make our way<br \/>\nLike the blind<br \/>\nFeeling texts written in raised letters<\/p>\n<p><p>In fits and starts<br \/>\nI align myself with Christ<br \/>\nheroically<br \/>\nAnd tragically<br \/>\nFailing<br \/>\nTo comprehend it all<br \/>\nI am most successful in slumber<br \/>\nUnder the cloaks of the apostles<\/p>\n<p><p>All of you in pain,<br \/>\nAll of you suffering,<br \/>\nAll of us,<br \/>\nStop in our tracks<br \/>\nAt the mystery<br \/>\nOf his willingness<\/p>\n<p><p>The mystery of his blood rimmed eyes<br \/>\nThat find me, you, each<br \/>\nHidden in the crowd&#8211;<br \/>\nThe only one who knows what I have done<br \/>\nAnd what of his inflicted pain was mine alone&#8211;<br \/>\nTo say spirit to spirit<br \/>\nI forgive you<br \/>\nAll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/S2YNpm6qPQU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Il Fratello Today is good Friday And the hands of the church Hold me As I walk over these stones We cannot do much But make our way Like the blind Feeling texts written in raised letters In fits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/good-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}