{"id":925,"date":"2015-12-06T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=925"},"modified":"2023-06-03T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:47:36","slug":"o-come-o-come-emmanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"O come, O come, Emmanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">O come, O come, Emmanuel,<br \/>\nand fill our lives, all dark and fear dispel,<br \/>\nas once an exiled Israel you found,<br \/>\nredeemed, restored and set on holy ground.<br \/>\nRejoice! Rejoice!<br \/>\nEmmanuel shall come to us and in our hearts will dwell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>O come, O light of Christ, so bright and clear<br \/>\nand lift our spirits by your advent here.<br \/>\nIn all who gather, show us your face,<br \/>\nthat we may know the warmth of your embrace.<br \/>\nRejoice! Rejoice!<br \/>\nEmmanuel shall come to us and in our hearts will dwell.<\/p>\n<p>O come, O Wisdom, mind and heart divine,<br \/>\nhelp us restore a world we&#8217;ve let decline.<br \/>\nEnlighten us; your way we would know<br \/>\nand show us where new seeds of hope to sow.<br \/>\nRejoice! Rejoice!<br \/>\nEmmanuel shall come to us and in our hearts will dwell.<\/p>\n<p>O Advent God of hope, joy, love and peace,<br \/>\nin you we pray our sad divisions cease.<br \/>\nBind us as one, a people of grace,<br \/>\nfor at your table each one has a place.<br \/>\nRejoice! Rejoice!<br \/>\nEmmanuel shall come to us and in our hearts will dwell.<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2010 Susan Wickham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O come, O come, Emmanuel, and fill our lives, all dark and fear dispel, as once an exiled Israel you found, redeemed, restored and set on holy ground. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to us and in our hearts will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}