{"id":1727,"date":"2006-09-25T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/church-mouse.lanuera.com\/IV\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2006-09-25T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T13:22:00","slug":"the-tree-upon-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"The Tree upon the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Church Mouse has received several requests for the words of the Offertory hymn that was so political that the Mass on Sunday 20 August 2006 had to be aborted and the congregation denied the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>The hymn has been sung pretty much every Sunday since that unfortunate day without consequence.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THE TREE UPON THE WALL<\/span><br \/>\nby Helen Reagan<\/p>\n<p>There is something missing here.<br \/>\nThere is something missing here.<br \/>\nA message that was oh so clear.<br \/>\nOf Love and Truth and Justice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chorus<\/span><br \/>\nBut now we have the tree upon the wall.<br \/>\nBlessed by everyone who understands.<br \/>\nA message for everyone to see.<br \/>\nA challenge to those with their own plan.<\/p>\n<p>The hands tell us who really own the Land.<br \/>\nThe tree itself is a message as it stands.<br \/>\nA life that simply can not be cut down.<br \/>\nThis life deeply rooted in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Let the tree bring them in.<br \/>\nSpirit filled prayers bursting forth.<br \/>\nFilling all with Truth in need.<br \/>\nRenewing hope for new life here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church Mouse has received several requests for the words of the Offertory hymn that was so political that the Mass on Sunday 20 August 2006 had to be aborted and the congregation denied the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>The hymn has been sung pretty much every Sunday since that unfortunate day without consequence. <\/p>\n<p>THE TREE UPON THE WALL<br \/> by Helen Reagan<\/p>\n<p>There is something missing here.<br \/> There is something missing here.<br \/> A message that was oh so clear.<br \/> Of Love and Truth and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/> But now we have the tree upon the wall.<br \/> Blessed &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1727\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}