{"id":10562,"date":"2020-09-05T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:22","slug":"the-eucharist-of-the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/09\/05\/the-eucharist-of-the-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eucharist of the Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seldom notice how each day is a holy place<br \/>\nWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,<br \/>\nTransforming our broken fragments<br \/>\nInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.<br \/>\nSomewhere in us a dignity presides<br \/>\nThat is more gracious than the smallness<br \/>\nThat fuels us with fear and force,<br \/>\nA dignity that trusts the form a day takes.<br \/>\nSo at the end of this day, we give thanks<br \/>\nFor being betrothed to the unknown<br \/>\nAnd for the secret work<br \/>\nThrough which the mind of the day<br \/>\nAnd wisdom of the soul become one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnodonohue.com\/\">John O&#8217;Donohue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us. Somewhere in us a dignity presides That is more gracious than the smallness That fuels us with fear and force, A dignity that trusts the form a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,30],"tags":[323,235,322],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-quotes","tag-holy-ordinary","tag-soul","tag-wisdom"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10563,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}