{"id":4549,"date":"2019-09-20T01:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2019-09-20T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:16:28","slug":"simple-prayer-for-complex-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/simple-prayer-for-complex-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Prayer for Complex Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Our<\/a>
Our Lady and Her Sacred Heart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The “Hail Mary” has been voted Irelands favourite prayer. This is it in Irish. It can be bought here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are those who say that prayer is dead
\nIn the Ireland of today
\nWhere rationalism and science of modern times
\nHas swept faith and piseogs away.<\/p>\n

But no, among the people here
\nTo spite clergy and hierarchies crimes
\nThere’s no faith in them, but there is faith
\nAmong the faithful in there challenging times.<\/p>\n

In the wake of abuse and cover ups
\nThe hierarchy has lost its moral voice to speak
\nYet still the faith itself hangs on
\nThough most say it is weak…<\/p>\n

You find its strong among common people
\nWho are assembled anywhere
\nYou find they still say and have regard
\nFor their own favourite prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are those who say that prayer is dead In the Ireland of today Where rationalism and science of modern times Has swept faith and piseogs away. But no, among the people here To spite clergy and hierarchies crimes There’s no faith in them, but there is faith Among the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3582],"tags":[1630,524,4222,4223,4224,2345],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-catholic","tag-faith","tag-favourite-prayer","tag-hail-mary","tag-hail-mary-prayer","tag-ireland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1bn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3277,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/that-most-important-prayer\/","url_meta":{"origin":4549,"position":0},"title":"That Most Important Prayer","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"That most important prayer: That most forget to say - That is said by folk of all faiths At any time of the day... 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