{"id":1367,"date":"2023-09-04T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T03:14:39","slug":"the-hands-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"The Hands of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_Sunbury_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Christ_blesses_the_children-scaled.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Saint_John_Neumann_Catholic_Church_(Sunbury,_Ohio)_-_stained_glass,_Christ_blesses_the_children.jpg\">Saint John Neumann Catholic Church (Sunbury, Ohio). Stained glass, Christ blesses the children.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Son of God, how Thou didst bless those born of man!<br>\u201cSuffer the little children to come unto me,\u201d said Thee;<br>What little of this I understand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I recall Thy Hands, nailed for all to see.<br>Were these, now bloodied, not laid upon little ones?<br>How could this be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verily, how great is He who gave Himself to all,<br>From mothers and fathers to daughters and sons,<br>Who of their own could never rise above the Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Mark 10:14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-faith"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}