{"id":26219,"date":"2011-02-02T05:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T09:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/presentation-of-the-lord-1\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T05:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T09:47:24","slug":"presentation-of-the-lord-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/presentation-of-the-lord-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of the Lord"},"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%20of%20the%20Lord%20PdeChampaigne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presentation of the Lord PdeChampaigne.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Presentation of the Lord PdeChampaigne-thumb-300x361-8496.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>In honor of the divine mystery that we celebrate<br \/>\ntoday, let us all hasten to meet Christ. Everyone should be eager to join the procession<br \/>\nand to carry a light. Our lighted candle are a sign of the divine splendor of<br \/>\nthe One who comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make the whole<br \/>\nuniverse radiant with the brilliance of His eternal light. Our candles show us<br \/>\nhow bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ.<\/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\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">from a homily of Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Office of Readings<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the divine mystery that we celebrate today, let us all hasten to meet Christ. Everyone should be eager to join the procession and to carry a light. Our lighted candle are a sign of the divine splendor of the One who comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/presentation-of-the-lord-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presentation 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":[17],"tags":[1948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219"}],"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=26219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}