{"id":29832,"date":"2013-12-22T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29832"},"modified":"2013-12-22T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T12:36:05","slug":"in-his-dreams-joseph-responds-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/in-his-dreams-joseph-responds-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"In his dreams Joseph responds to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Silence-of-St-Jospeh-Ruberval-Monteiro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29833 alignright\" alt=\"Silence of St Jospeh Ruberval Monteiro\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Silence-of-St-Jospeh-Ruberval-Monteiro-219x300.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Silence-of-St-Jospeh-Ruberval-Monteiro-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Silence-of-St-Jospeh-Ruberval-Monteiro.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.<br \/>\nWhen his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,<br \/>\nbut before they lived together,<br \/>\nshe was found with child through the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nJoseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,<br \/>\nyet unwilling to expose her to shame,<br \/>\ndecided to divorce her quietly.<br \/>\nSuch was his intention when, behold,<br \/>\nthe angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,<br \/>\n\u201cJoseph, son of David,<br \/>\ndo not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.<br \/>\nFor it is through the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nthat this child has been conceived in her.<br \/>\nShe will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,<br \/>\nbecause he will save his people from their sins.\u201d<br \/>\nAll this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:<br \/>\n<i>Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>and they shall name him Emmanuel,\u00a0<\/i><br \/>\nwhich means \u201cGod is with us.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Joseph awoke,<br \/>\nhe did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him<br \/>\nand took his wife into his home. (MT 1: 18-24)<\/p>\n<p>Image: Silence of St Joseph by Ruberval Monteiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly. Such was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/in-his-dreams-joseph-responds-to-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In his dreams Joseph responds to God<\/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\/29832"}],"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=29832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29834,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29832\/revisions\/29834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}