{"id":25190,"date":"2009-12-24T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-christmas-tree-points-to-t\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:30:11","slug":"the-christmas-tree-points-to-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-christmas-tree-points-to-t\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas tree points to the Divine Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Vatican%20Christmas%20Tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vatican Christmas Tree.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Vatican Christmas Tree-thumb-250x374-5291.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"374\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The Pope received the bishop and a delegation from Wallonia, from<br \/>\nwhere this year&#8217;s Vatican Square Christmas tree came from, to say thank you for gift on behalf of the Church. He said, &#8220;The role<br \/>\nof this tree is similar to that of the shepherds who, watching through the<br \/>\nshades of night, saw how the darkness was illuminated with the message of the<br \/>\nangels. &#8230; Standing next to the nativity scene the tree indicates, in its own<br \/>\nparticular way, the great mystery present in the poor and simple grotto. It<br \/>\nproclaims the arrival of the Son of God to the inhabitants of Rome, to pilgrims<br \/>\nand to everyone who sees St. Peter&#8217;s Square on television. Though this tree<br \/>\nyour land, and the faith of the Christian communities in your region, greet the<br \/>\nChrist Child.&#8221; (Benedict XVI)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope received the bishop and a delegation from Wallonia, from where this year&#8217;s Vatican Square Christmas tree came from, to say thank you for gift on behalf of the Church. He said, &#8220;The role of this tree is similar to that of the shepherds who, watching through the shades of night, saw how the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-christmas-tree-points-to-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Christmas tree points to the Divine Mystery<\/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":[1827,2265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25190"}],"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=25190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}