{"id":34750,"date":"2017-09-08T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34750"},"modified":"2017-09-08T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:30:28","slug":"nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity of Mary, the Mother of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nativity-of-Mary.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nativity-of-Mary.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>This is the highest, all-embracing benefit<br \/>\nthat Christ has bestowed upon us.<br \/>\nThis is the revelation of the mystery,<br \/>\nthis is the emptying-out of the divine nature,<br \/>\nthe union of God and man,<br \/>\nand the deification of the manhood that was assumed.<br \/>\nThis radiant and manifest coming of God to men<br \/>\nmost certainly needed a joyful prelude<br \/>\nto introduce the great gift of salvation to us.<br \/>\nThe present festival \u2014the nativity of the Theotokos\u2014<br \/>\nis that prelude,<br \/>\nwhile the final act is the foreordained union<br \/>\nof the Word with flesh.<br \/>\nToday the Virgin is born, tended and formed,<br \/>\nand prepared for her role as Mother of God,<br \/>\nthat God who is the universal King of all the ages!<\/p>\n<p>from a discourse of St. Andrew of Crete<br \/>\nfrom today\u2019s Office of Readings for 8 September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the highest, all-embracing benefit that Christ has bestowed upon us. This is the revelation of the mystery, this is the emptying-out of the divine nature, the union of God and man, and the deification of the manhood that was assumed. This radiant and manifest coming of God to men most certainly needed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/nativity-of-mary-the-mother-of-god-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nativity of Mary, the Mother of 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":[26],"tags":[3002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750"}],"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=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34752,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}