{"id":3053,"date":"2006-12-27T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2006-12-27T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:07:00","slug":"christmas-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Christmas blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recommended blessings given in CofE Common Worship can be pretty dire. Take the Christmas text:<br \/><span><br \/>Christ, who by his incarnation gathered into one<br \/>things earthly and heavenly,<br \/>fill you with peace and goodwill<br \/>and make you partakers of the divine nature;<br \/>and the blessing \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always found this remarkably clumsy &#8211; clearly drafted by people who were used to reading prayers rather than saying them in worship. In a fit of spontaneously illegal re-drafting, I said this instead:<\/p>\n<p><span>Christ, who by his incarnation bound together earth and heaven,<br \/>fill you with peace and goodwill<br \/>and make you children of God;<br \/>and the blessing&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to stick with it. It seemed to make more sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recommended blessings given in CofE Common Worship can be pretty dire. Take the Christmas text:Christ, who by his incarnation gathered into onethings earthly and heavenly,fill you with peace and goodwilland make you partakers of the divine nature;and the blessing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Nf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}