{"id":4497,"date":"2017-09-22T09:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2017-09-22T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:05:09","slug":"come-down-o-love-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4497","title":{"rendered":"Come down, O love divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4497-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ComeDown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ComeDown.mp3\">http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ComeDown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Come down, O love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine,<br \/>\nAnd visit it with Thine own ardor glowing.<br \/>\nO Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear,<br \/>\nAnd kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing.<\/p>\n<p>O let it freely burn, til earthly passions turn<br \/>\nTo dust and ashes in its heat consuming;<br \/>\nAnd let Thy glorious light shine ever on my sight,<br \/>\nAnd clothe me round, the while my path illuming.<\/p>\n<p>Let holy charity mine outward vesture be,<br \/>\nand lowliness become mine inner clothing;<br \/>\ntrue lowliness of heart, which takes the humbler part,<br \/>\nand o&#8217;er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.<\/p>\n<p>And so the yearning strong, with which the soul will long,<br \/>\nShall far outpass the power of human telling;<br \/>\nFor none can guess its grace, till he become the place<br \/>\nWherein the Holy Spirit makes His dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>Bianco da Siena<br \/>\n15th century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come down, O love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine, And visit it with Thine own ardor glowing. O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, And kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing. O let it freely burn, til earthly passions turn To dust and ashes in its heat consuming; And let Thy glorious &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Come down, O love divine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}