{"id":26147,"date":"2011-02-02T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/christs-born-be-glad\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:18:26","slug":"christs-born-be-glad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/christs-born-be-glad\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ&#8217;s born, be glad for you have encountered the Messiah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Presentation%20-%20Candlemas.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presentation - Candlemas.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Presentation - Candlemas-thumb-200x252-8498.jpeg\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>40 days ago we celebrated the fact of the Incarnation of the Eternal Word of God, Emmanuel, whom we call Jesus. Today&#8217;s liturgical observance of Candelmas &#8211;the Encounter with the Lord&#8211; recalls our great joy and we&#8217;re told what our joy is about by&nbsp;Saint Leo the Great:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">&#8220;Our Savior was born today: let us be glad. For there<br \/>\nis no proper place for sadness, when we keep the birthday of the Life, which<br \/>\ndestroys the fear of mortality and brings to us the joy of promised eternity.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 days ago we celebrated the fact of the Incarnation of the Eternal Word of God, Emmanuel, whom we call Jesus. Today&#8217;s liturgical observance of Candelmas &#8211;the Encounter with the Lord&#8211; recalls our great joy and we&#8217;re told what our joy is about by&nbsp;Saint Leo the Great:&nbsp; &#8220;Our Savior was born today: let us be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/christs-born-be-glad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christ&#8217;s born, be glad for you have encountered the Messiah!<\/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":[2614,1891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147"}],"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=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}