{"id":47,"date":"2012-05-07T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/egregioustwaddle\/2012\/05\/over-the-chalice-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:33:54","slug":"over-the-chalice-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/egregioustwaddle\/2012\/05\/over-the-chalice-of-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Over the Chalice of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wsj16xr5qMQ\/T6ghEe19AOI\/AAAAAAAAAoY\/BYxHOmGHbHg\/s1600\/market+013.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wsj16xr5qMQ\/T6ghEe19AOI\/AAAAAAAAAoY\/BYxHOmGHbHg\/s400\/market+013.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>There are much better photos of Saturday nights\u2019s Supermoon, but this is how I saw it, turning the night to day and looking like nothing so much as an enormous Host elevated over the Chalice of the world as I left my young friend Sylvia\u2019s First Communion party.<\/p>\n<p>And because every moon is super and our sister and full no matter from what perspective it appears and a reflection of its Creator, some Mechthild of Magdeburg (from Book 8 of <i>The Flowing Light of the Godhead<\/i>) for moonwatching in nights to come:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O you full Moon.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O you bottomless Well.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O you unscalable Height.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O you brightness without measure.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O Wisdom without ground.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O Mercy without restraint.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O Might without opposition.<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">O Crown of all honors!<\/span><br><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;line-height: 18px\">The most lowly person you ever created praises you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are much better photos of Saturday nights\u2019s Supermoon, but this is how I saw it, turning the night to day and looking like nothing so much as an enormous Host elevated over the Chalice of the world as I left my young friend Sylvia\u2019s First Communion party. 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