{"id":34362,"date":"2017-01-09T06:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34362"},"modified":"2017-01-09T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:23:58","slug":"christ-appears-in-his-humanity-and-divinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/christ-appears-in-his-humanity-and-divinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ appears in his humanity and divinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epiphany-relief.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34363 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epiphany-relief-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"epiphany-relief\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epiphany-relief-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epiphany-relief-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epiphany-relief.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the feast of the Epiphany. The splendor of this feast recalls God\u2019s manifestation to all people, to the whole world. On Christmas Day, God\u2019s goodness became visible to us under the form of a baby, in the sacred humanity of Christ, God\u2019s only begotten Son and the Father\u2019s true image and substance.<\/p>\n<p>Through faith, we know the mystery of the Incarnation, and Christ\u2019s appearance in our midst changed forever the course of human history. God appeared in our world as a small baby, but he came to it as Savior. He came to save us!<\/p>\n<p>In the Latin-Mediterranean countries, the feast of the Epiphany is commonly known as the Feast of the Three Kings. Guided by a brighter than usual star, they came from afar to the humble cave of Bethlehem to render homage to a tiny child, the King of Kings. In the Gospel story, the evangelists make sure to imply that the Magi represented the gentiles, thus Jesus did not just come to save Israel\u2019s Chosen People, but to save all humankind, Jews and gentiles alike.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Victor-Antoine D\u2019Avila-Latourrette<br \/>\n<em>A Monastic Journey To Christmas<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">***The church calendar can be confusing to some. In the Eastern Churches and with the Traditional Roman Missal the great feast of the Epiphany\/Theophany is celebrated on January 6. The Novus Ordo group celebrates the feast today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of the Epiphany. The splendor of this feast recalls God\u2019s manifestation to all people, to the whole world. On Christmas Day, God\u2019s goodness became visible to us under the form of a baby, in the sacred humanity of Christ, God\u2019s only begotten Son and the Father\u2019s true image and substance. Through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/christ-appears-in-his-humanity-and-divinity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christ appears in his humanity and divinity<\/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":[1902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362"}],"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=34362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34364,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34362\/revisions\/34364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}