{"id":29848,"date":"2013-12-25T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29848"},"modified":"2013-12-25T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T14:14:55","slug":"hope-springs-from-a-stable-of-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/hope-springs-from-a-stable-of-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope springs from a stable of Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Francis-kisses-baby-Jesus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29849 alignleft\" alt=\"Francis kisses baby Jesus\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Francis-kisses-baby-Jesus-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Francis-kisses-baby-Jesus-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Francis-kisses-baby-Jesus.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To you, dear brothers and sisters, gathered from throughout the world in this Square, and to all those from different countries who join us through the communications media, I offer my cordial best wishes for a merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>On this day illumined by the Gospel hope which springs from the humble stable of Bethlehem, I invoke the Christmas gift of joy and peace upon all: upon children and the elderly, upon young people and families, the poor and the marginalized. May Jesus, who was born for us, console all those afflicted by illness and suffering; may he sustain those who devote themselves to serving our brothers and sisters who are most in need. Happy Christmas to all!<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis&#8217; English message for Christmas 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To you, dear brothers and sisters, gathered from throughout the world in this Square, and to all those from different countries who join us through the communications media, I offer my cordial best wishes for a merry Christmas! On this day illumined by the Gospel hope which springs from the humble stable of Bethlehem, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/hope-springs-from-a-stable-of-bethlehem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope springs from a stable of Bethlehem<\/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":[1875,32107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848"}],"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=29848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29850,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848\/revisions\/29850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}