{"id":9061,"date":"2020-02-27T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2022-02-18T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:20:55","slug":"evening-prayer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/02\/27\/evening-prayer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening prayer #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/02\/27\/evening-prayer-3\/coolhaven_by_night\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A320FL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1582754373&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"coolhaven_by_night\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/coolhaven_by_night.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:smaller;\">Coolhaven, Rotterdam &nbsp;(Photo: Irene Bom)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:28px; font-family:Georgia, serif;line-height:1.5;margin-bottom:20px;\">&#8220;- Night is drawing nigh -&#8221;<br \/>\nFor all that has been &#8211; Thanks!<br \/>\nFor all that shall be &#8211; Yes!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by <strong>Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld<\/strong>, from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Markings-Dag-Hammarskjold\/dp\/0307277429\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Markings<\/a><\/em>, p. 89<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3>More of\/on Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dag-hammarskjold.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dag-hammarskjold.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/parabola.org\/2016\/10\/17\/desiring-peace-a-meditation-on-dag-hammarskjold-by-roger-lipsey\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Desiring Peace: A Meditation on Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld<\/a>, by Roger Lipsey<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/westernmystics.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/18\/dag-hammarskjold\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld<\/a> (westernmystics website)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daghammarskjold.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rg_to_waymarks.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Reader\u2019s Guide to Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld\u2019s <em>Waymarks<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolhaven, Rotterdam &nbsp;(Photo: Irene Bom) &nbsp; &#8220;- Night is drawing nigh -&#8221; For all that has been &#8211; Thanks! For all that shall be &#8211; Yes! &nbsp; by Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld, from Markings, p. 89 &nbsp; More of\/on Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld dag-hammarskjold.net Desiring Peace: A Meditation on Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld, by Roger Lipsey Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld (westernmystics website) A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/02\/27\/evening-prayer-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evening prayer #3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,178],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-evening-prayer","tag-night"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evening prayer #3 - Prayer matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An evening prayer by Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld: &quot;- Night is drawing nigh -&quot; \/ For all that has been - Thanks! \/ For all that shall be. 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Prince of everything that is, High Priest of the mysteries, let your angels, God supreme, tell us\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;bible&quot;","block_context":{"text":"bible","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/edinburgh_twilight_august_2016.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/edinburgh_twilight_august_2016.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/edinburgh_twilight_august_2016.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/edinburgh_twilight_august_2016.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2017\/03\/15\/evening-prayer-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":9061,"position":3},"title":"Evening prayer #1","author":"Irene Bom","date":"March 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Watch, dear Lord, with those who wake or weep tonight, and let your angels watch over those who sleep. Tend the sick. Refresh the weary. Sustain the dying. Calm the suffering. Pity the distressed. We ask this for your love's sake. Amen St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;prayer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/prayer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7989,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/02\/03\/good-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":9061,"position":4},"title":"Good night","author":"Irene Bom","date":"February 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Rotterdam \u00a0(Photo: Irene Bom) \u00a0 Some months ago I posted A liturgy of the morning by P\u00e1draig \u00d3 Tuama. Here is the companion piece, to launch our theme of the month, \"Night\". A liturgy of the night On the first night God said: 'Let there be darkness.' 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