{"id":213,"date":"2014-06-11T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2014-08-11T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:04:54","slug":"stone-angels-stone-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/stone-angels-stone-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Angels, Stone Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"height: 344px; width: 545px;\" width=\"545\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/87GF1a8xPgo&amp;autoplay=0?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pennies of the poor gathered, one by one, counted<br \/>\nThousands, and hundreds of thousands, from the faithful amounted&#8230;<br \/>\nDestroyed one cold morning, the temple took years to rebuild from the earth<br \/>\nNearby once upon a time, in a grotto, a child of Marys years died in a grotto giving birth<br \/>\nGods weakest, a single mother, felt looked down on, was and felt alone&#8230;<br \/>\nToday stone hearts erect again upon the walls, cold angels of stone.<\/p>\n<address>Dedicated to Anne Lovett, and all the tragic mothers who society and the church failed, for the crime of giving life. The irony and hypocrisy is that most of these would call themselves pro life.While its nice to see the Cathedral rebuilt, the beauty of the church in Longford is not in its stone churches and their ornamentations, but in the hearts of its flock. Is there any more beauty there today than in Ann Lovetts time in Granard?<\/address>\n<address class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_3305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1119px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Stone-Angels-at-St-Mels-Cathederal-in-Longford.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Angels at St Mels Cathedral in Longford\" width=\"1109\" height=\"431\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Stone Angels at St Mels Cathedral in Longford<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennies of the poor gathered, one by one, counted Thousands, and hundreds of thousands, from the faithful amounted&#8230; Destroyed one cold morning, the temple took years to rebuild from the earth Nearby once upon a time, in a grotto, a child of Marys years died in a grotto giving birth &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[329,331,116,334,333,330,332],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-longford","tag-ann-lovett","tag-god","tag-granard","tag-longford-cathederal","tag-right-to-life","tag-single-mother","tag-society","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-3r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1859,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-room-at-the-inn\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":0},"title":"No Room at the Inn","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th June 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"She died alone, like a cow in a field, the papers wrote Nothing new there, comment passed as true as it was wry No cows to breath on her newborn in a manger No Joseph to stand by and hold her hand, world wonders how: why... 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