{"id":25183,"date":"2009-12-21T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/bethlehem-make-readyfriends-be\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:47:53","slug":"bethlehem-make-readyfriends-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/bethlehem-make-readyfriends-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem make ready&#8230;friends be alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Adoration%20of%20the%20Magi%20SBotticelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adoration of the Magi SBotticelli.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Adoration of the Magi SBotticelli-thumb-500x173-5277.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"173\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bethlehem, make ready,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">for Eden has been opened for all.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ephrathah, be alert,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">for the Tree of Life has blossomed forth<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">from the Virgin in the cave.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Her womb has become a spiritual paradise<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">wherein the Divine Fruit was planted,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and if we eat of it,<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">we shall live and not die like Adam.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Christ is coming forth to bring back to life<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the likeness that had been lost in the beginning.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bethlehem, make ready, for Eden has been opened for all!<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">(a Byzantine poetic text for the time before the Nativity of the Lord)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem, make ready, for Eden has been opened for all. Ephrathah, be alert, for the Tree of Life has blossomed forth from the Virgin in the cave. Her womb has become a spiritual paradise wherein the Divine Fruit was planted, and if we eat of it, we shall live and not die like Adam. Christ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/bethlehem-make-readyfriends-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bethlehem make ready&#8230;friends be alert<\/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\/25183"}],"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=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}