{"id":25152,"date":"2009-12-10T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/advent-a-recognition-of-the-po\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T15:22:05","slug":"advent-a-recognition-of-the-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/advent-a-recognition-of-the-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent: a recognition of the point of the Birth of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Garamond; &lt;br \/&gt;\nmso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Botticelli%2C%20Madonna%20del%20Libro%2C%201483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Botticelli, Madonna del Libro, 1483.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Botticelli, Madonna del Libro, 1483-thumb-250x178-5200.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is truly meet and just, right and available to\u00a0salvation, that we should give thanks to thee, O Lord God, almighty: and that we<br \/>\nshould, whilst invoking Thy power, celebrate the feasts of the blessed Virgin\u00a0Mary; from whose womb grew the Fruit, which has filled with the Bread of\u00a0angels.\u00a0<i>That Fruit which Eve took from us when she sinned, Mary has restored to\u00a0us, and it has saved us. Not as the work of the serpent is the work of Mary<\/i>. From\u00a0the one, came the poison of our destruction; from the other, the mysteries of\u00a0salvation. In the one, we see the malice of the tempter; in the other, the help\u00a0of the divine Majesty. Be the one, came death to the creature; by the other the\u00a0resurrection of the Creator, by whom human nature,\u00a0now not captive but free, is\u00a0restored; and what it lost by its parent Adam, it regained by its Maker Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>(A prayer from the Ambrosian Breviary, a\u00a0<i>Sixth Sunday of Advent<\/i>, Preface)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Garamond; &lt;br \/&gt;\nmso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><!--EndFragment--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is truly meet and just, right and available to\u00a0salvation, that we should give thanks to thee, O Lord God, almighty: and that we should, whilst invoking Thy power, celebrate the feasts of the blessed Virgin\u00a0Mary; from whose womb grew the Fruit, which has filled with the Bread of\u00a0angels.\u00a0That Fruit which Eve took from us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/advent-a-recognition-of-the-po\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent: a recognition of the point of the Birth of Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1827],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}