{"id":4937,"date":"2020-04-10T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2020-04-11T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T12:31:20","slug":"4937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4937","title":{"rendered":"Glory Be to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Glory be to Jesus,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>who, in bitter pains<\/em><br \/>\n<em>poured for me the lifeblood<\/em><br \/>\n<em>from his sacred veins!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Grace and life eternal<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in that blood I find;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>blest be his compassion,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>infinitely kind!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blest thro&#8217; endless ages<\/em><br \/>\n<em>be the precious stream<\/em><br \/>\n<em>which from endless torments<\/em><br \/>\n<em>did the world redeem!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Abel&#8217;s blood for vengeance<\/em><br \/>\n<em>pleaded to the skies;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but the blood of Jesus<\/em><br \/>\n<em>for our pardon cries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oft as earth exulting<\/em><br \/>\n<em>wafts its praise on high,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>angel hosts rejoicing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>make their glad reply.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lift we, then, our voices,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>swell the mighty flood,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>louder still and louder<\/em><br \/>\n<em>praise the precious blood!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)<br \/>\nTrans. Edward Caswall (1814-1878)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory be to Jesus, who, in bitter pains poured for me the lifeblood from his sacred veins! Grace and life eternal in that blood I find; blest be his compassion, infinitely kind! Blest thro&#8217; endless ages be the precious stream which from endless torments did the world redeem! Abel&#8217;s blood for vengeance pleaded to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glory Be to Jesus&#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\/4937"}],"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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}