{"id":2681,"date":"2023-12-05T02:50:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2023-12-05T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:50:13","slug":"evensong-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 67"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231204_214831-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm is both invocation and doxology, its lines nothing new. As a boy, I might rise from my pew at the end of a service and hear my father say these familiar words: \u201cGod be merciful to us and bless us, \/ And cause His face to shine upon us.\u201d It was one of three benedictions he used.<br><br>Pop never used this psalm at the start of \u201cpreaching\u201d or as part of the liturgy, just as a worshipful way of saying so long every third Sunday. I can\u2019t recall a single invocation he used, and his only Doxology was the one in the hymnal. But his goodbyes \u2014 to his last breath \u2014 were memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm is both invocation and doxology, its lines nothing new. As a boy, I might rise from my pew at the end of a service and hear my father say these familiar words: \u201cGod be merciful to us and bless us, \/ And cause His face to shine upon us.\u201d It was one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 67<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}