{"id":4530,"date":"2024-04-12T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:36:51","slug":"trisagion-thrice-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"Trisagion (Thrice Holy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Trisagion (Thrice Holy) is a hymn from the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church. It is an ancient Christian prayer that goes like this:<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8222;Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us&#8220;<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s seven in the morning and I still can&#8217;t get to sleep<br \/>\nI&#8217;m lying face down on my pillow and I wet it with my tears<\/p>\n<p>I want to be with my Jesus and I&#8217;m trying hard to pray<br \/>\nBut the words they won&#8217;t come easy so I can only say:<\/p>\n<p>Lift me up, Holy, lift me up, Mighty, lift me up, Immortal,<br \/>\nhave mercy on me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh please make me a river that&#8217;s flowing down to You<br \/>\nOr You can let me be your sailor and I&#8217;ll sing this with my crew:<\/p>\n<p>Raise my sails, Holy, raise my sails, Mighty, raise my sails, Immortal,<br \/>\nhave mercy on me.<\/p>\n<p>And when our sailing&#8217;s over we&#8217;ll see the shining land<br \/>\nAnd then we&#8217;ll run to you like children barefoot in the golden sand.<\/p>\n<p>Walk with me, Holy, walk with me, Mighty, walk with me, Immortal,<br \/>\nhave mercy on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trisagion (Thrice Holy) is a hymn from the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church. It is an ancient Christian prayer that goes like this: &#8222;Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[118,1091,1092,718],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31","category-26","tag-christian","tag-orthodox","tag-prayer","tag-song","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plamensivov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}