{"id":2626,"date":"2007-02-22T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T02:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/fifth-day-of-the-novena\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:14:34","slug":"fifth-day-of-the-novena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/fifth-day-of-the-novena\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Day of the Novena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/kalimantan1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/kalimantan1-thumb.JPG\" alt=\"kalimantan1.JPG\" width=\"235\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>Following the same evocative rite used by Saint Gabriel of the <em>Addolorata<\/em> in 1857, young Indonesian Passionists making their First Profession are symbolically crowned with thorns and charged with the wood of the cross.<br \/>\nSaint Bernard, meditating the mystery of Passion of Christ, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[The Church] beholds King Solomon,<br \/>\nwith the crown wherewith his mother crowned him<br \/>\nin the day of his espousals;<br \/>\nshe sees the Sole-begotten of the Father bearing the heavy burden of His Cross;<br \/>\nshe sees the Lord of all power and might bruised and spat upon,<br \/>\nthe Author of life and glory transfixed with nails,<br \/>\nsmitten by the lance, overwhelmed with mockery,<br \/>\nand at last laying down His precious life for His friends.<br \/>\nContemplating this the sword of love pierces through her own soul also<br \/>\nand she cried aloud, &#8216;Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples;<br \/>\nfor I am sick of love.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe fruits which the Spouse gathers from the Tree of Life<br \/>\nin the midst of the garden of her Beloved, are pomegranates (Cant. 4:13),<br \/>\nborrowing their taste from the Bread of heaven,<br \/>\nand their color from the Blood of Christ.<br \/>\n<u>On Loving God<\/u>, Chapter Three<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/2007\/02\/some_fond_return_of_love_prayi.html#more\">Click here for the Novena Prayers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the same evocative rite used by Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata in 1857, young Indonesian Passionists making their First Profession are symbolically crowned with thorns and charged with the wood of the cross. Saint Bernard, meditating the mystery of Passion of Christ, writes: [The Church] beholds King Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Gm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}