{"id":5237,"date":"2025-12-23T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:11:03","slug":"o-rex-gentium-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"O Rex Gentium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/O-King-of-all-the-nations-the-only-joy-of-every-human-heart-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>O King of all the nations,<br>the only joy of every human heart;<br>O keystone of the mighty arch of man,<br>come and save the creature<br>you fashioned out of dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Rex Gentium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O King of our desire whom we despise,<br>King of the nations never on the throne,<br>Unfound foundation, cast-off cornerstone,<br>Rejected joiner, making many one,<br>You have no form or beauty for our eyes,<br>A King who comes to give away his crown,<br>A King within our rags of flesh and bone.<br>We pierce the flesh that pierces our disguise,<br>For we ourselves are found in you alone.<br>Come to us now and find in us your throne,<br>O King within the child within the clay,<br>O hidden King who shapes us in the play<br>Of all creation. Shape us for the day<br>Your coming Kingdom comes into its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malcolm Guite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Malcolm Guite read his sonnet: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-malcolm-guite wp-block-embed-malcolm-guite\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"07eNTnhdxB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmguite.wordpress.com\/2022\/12\/22\/o-rex-gentium-a-sixth-advent-reflection-8\/\">O Rex Gentium a Sixth Advent&nbsp;Reflection<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;O Rex Gentium a Sixth Advent&nbsp;Reflection&#8221; &#8212; Malcolm Guite\" src=\"https:\/\/malcolmguite.wordpress.com\/2022\/12\/22\/o-rex-gentium-a-sixth-advent-reflection-8\/embed\/#?secret=yE0H2t3yAL#?secret=07eNTnhdxB\" data-secret=\"07eNTnhdxB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O King of all the nations,the only joy of every human heart;O keystone of the mighty arch of man,come and save the creatureyou fashioned out of dust. O Rex Gentium O King of our desire whom we despise,King of the nations never on the throne,Unfound foundation, cast-off cornerstone,Rejected joiner, making many one,You have no form &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Rex Gentium&#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-5237","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\/5237","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=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}