{"id":11026,"date":"2019-01-25T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/?p=11026"},"modified":"2019-01-25T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:03:47","slug":"11026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/?p=11026","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Stretch Out Your Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Night is coming on, 0 Jesus hidden within the Host; my hands are empty of virtues, and I need your merits and your cross to fill them. But where shall I find these graces? Where shall I turn to look for these treasures, if not to the foot of the beloved altar where you dwell 0 my adorable Master?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are immense areas of neglect in my life: I have not always done my duty to my neighbour, or to the members of my family, nor have I fulfilled the most holy obligations of religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Instead of seeking God, I have sought myself. I have desired comforts, I have been vainglorious and obstinate in defending my own opinion. I have taken pleasure in worldly friendships, and have sought my own gratification even in my special prayer time alone with you. How often have I yielded to a desire to have others approve of me, to being too easily hurt, to culpable weaknesses!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Where are the humility, the patience, the obedience, the gentleness, the costly victories; where the sacrifice, which was to be the very essence of my life&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And this is why I suffer, because my hands are empty&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Everything shall pass away, 0 Master of my life! The days and nights, the months and the years, the light and the darkness, the creatures that surround me; but you will never pass away&#8230;. You will remain with me forever!&#8230; Your affection, your tenderness and your love do not change, do not pass away but remain forever!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That is why I place all my happiness in possessing you, in having you to be mine; in adoring you with all the powers of my soul&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What an unutterable consolation to keep one&#8217;s eyes fixed on your divine Heart, so good, so loving; and to hear you saying in my inmost soul: My child, give me your heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (Conchita; 11937) was a wife, mother, and writer in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stretch Out Your Hand Night is coming on, 0 Jesus hidden within the Host; my hands are empty of virtues, and I need your merits and your cross to fill them. But where shall I find these graces? Where shall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/?p=11026\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magnificat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11028,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}