{"id":25443,"date":"2010-03-25T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/annunciation-of-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:00:57","slug":"annunciation-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/annunciation-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Annunciation of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cestello%20Annunciation%20detail%20SBotticelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cestello Annunciation detail SBotticelli.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Cestello Annunciation detail SBotticelli-thumb-250x339-6054.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"339\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>As Christ came into the World, he said: Behold! I have come to do your will O God.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <i>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i> teaches us that &#8220;The Annunciation to Mary inaugurates &#8216;the fullness of time,&#8217; the time of the fulfillment of God&#8217;s promises and preparations. Mary was invited to conceive him in whom the &#8216;whole fullness of deity&#8217; would dwell &#8216;bodily.&#8217; The divine response to her question, &#8216;How can this be, since I know not man?&#8217; was given by the power of the Spirit: &#8216;The Holy Spirit will come upon you.'&#8221; (484)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>God our Father, Your Word became man and was born of the Virgin Mary. May we become more like Jesus Christ, whom we acknowledge as our redeemer, God and man.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christ came into the World, he said: Behold! I have come to do your will O God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that &#8220;The Annunciation to Mary inaugurates &#8216;the fullness of time,&#8217; the time of the fulfillment of God&#8217;s promises and preparations. Mary was invited to conceive him in whom the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/annunciation-of-the-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annunciation of the Lord<\/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":[26],"tags":[32088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443"}],"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=25443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}