{"id":31752,"date":"2014-12-14T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31752"},"modified":"2014-12-26T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T20:12:59","slug":"gaudete-sunday-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/gaudete-sunday-rejoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaudete Sunday:  Rejoice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Our Lady of Joy\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Our-Lady-of-Joy.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>The Church celebrates the third Sunday of Advent today. It is known as Gaudete Sunday because the opening words of the Mass coming from Scripture, &#8220;Rejoice&#8221;, coming from the Latin <em>Gaudete<\/em> &#8211;rejoice &#8212; is\u00a0\u00a0the entrance antiphon for today and the controlling idea of the second reading from Philippians in Year C of the lectionary cycle (&#8220;Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice! The Lord is near!).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">On Gaudete Sunday the\u00a0priest may wear either violet or rose vestments and we light the rose candle on the wreath. This custom of rose vestments is a 10th century practice (one that we observe on the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday). In\u00a0the season of Advent, the color rose is a sign of anticipatory Christmas joy as it also marks the midpoint of Advent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Up to December 16 the Liturgy focuses our attention and preparation on Lord&#8217;s coming at the end of time; then as time nears the Nativity (December 17-24) we begin to prepare for the celebration of Jesus&#8217; Nativity on the feast of Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joy is the basic Christian attitude; no joy, no true and authentic Christian discipleship. Mary, the Mother of God is also the first disciple of joy! Even she is clad in rose!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church celebrates the third Sunday of Advent today. It is known as Gaudete Sunday because the opening words of the Mass coming from Scripture, &#8220;Rejoice&#8221;, coming from the Latin Gaudete &#8211;rejoice &#8212; is\u00a0\u00a0the entrance antiphon for today and the controlling idea of the second reading from Philippians in Year C of the lectionary cycle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/gaudete-sunday-rejoice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gaudete Sunday:  Rejoice!<\/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\/31752"}],"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=31752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31754,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31752\/revisions\/31754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}