{"id":3795,"date":"2009-12-17T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/christ-be-our-light.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T02:00:00","slug":"christ-be-our-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/christ-be-our-light.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Christ, be our light&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was sung on Gaudete Sunday at my parish, and it remains one of my favorites among the newer hymns.   (It has one of those endearing, simple, waltzy melodies that you can never shake after you&#8217;ve heard it.)  <\/p>\n<p>Looking around on YouTube, I found this lovely video interpretation, focusing on the  work of Mother Teresa.  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