{"id":5184,"date":"2025-12-17T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:00:47","slug":"o-sapientia-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"O Sapientia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-Sapientia-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>17th December<br>O Sapientia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gen 49:2, 8-10<\/strong><br><strong>Mat 1:1-17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Wisdom, O holy Word of God,<br>you govern all creation <br>with your strong yet tender care.<br>Come and show your people<br>the way to salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O SAPIENTIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot think unless I have been thought,<br>Nor can I speak unless I have been spoken.<br>I cannot teach except as I am taught,<br>Or break the bread except as I am broken.<br>O Mind behind the mind through which I seek,<br>O Light within the light by which I see,<br>O Word beneath the words with which I speak,<br>O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me,<br>O sounding Song whose depth is sounding me,<br>O Memory of time, reminding me,<br>My Ground of Being, always grounding me,<br>My Maker\u2019s Bounding Line, defining me,<br>Come, hidden Wisdom, come with all you bring,<br>Come to me now, disguised as everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Malcolm Guite read his sonnet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmguite.wordpress.com\/tag\/o-sapientia\/\">https:\/\/malcolmguite.wordpress.com\/tag\/o-sapientia\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th DecemberO Sapientia Gen 49:2, 8-10Mat 1:1-17 O Wisdom, O holy Word of God,you govern all creation with your strong yet tender care.Come and show your peoplethe way to salvation. O SAPIENTIA I cannot think unless I have been thought,Nor can I speak unless I have been spoken.I cannot teach except as I am taught,Or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Sapientia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}