{"id":37453,"date":"2025-12-27T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=37453"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:11:59","slug":"st-stephens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/st-stephens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"St Stephen’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On the Byzantine liturgical calendar today is dedicated to the first-martyr, the holy deacon Stephen. The Latin Church recalls the remembers the apostles and evangelist St John.<\/p>\n

A blessed name day to all those named Stephen or Stephanie \u2013 also special festal greetings to all deacons on this day! Thank you for your ministry!
\n\u201cFirst-martyr and apostle of Christ, you fought the good fight. You convicted the tyrants of their wickedness. When you were killed by stoning at the hands of sinners, you received a crown from God\u2019s right hand while you cried out: Lord, do not hold this sin against them.\u201d [Troparion of the feast]<\/p>\n

The Church gives us the feast of St. Stephen immediately after Christmas to make something clear. On Christmas we learned \u201cthe son of God became man,\u201d and today we see the purpose\u2014\u201cso that we might become God\u201d (CCC 460). The account of Stephen\u2019s preaching and martyrdom shows us what it looks like to become like God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Byzantine liturgical calendar today is dedicated to the first-martyr, the holy deacon Stephen. The Latin Church recalls the remembers the apostles and evangelist St John. A blessed name day to all those named Stephen or Stephanie \u2013 also special festal greetings to all deacons on this day! Thank you for your ministry! \u201cFirst-martyr … Continue reading St Stephen’s Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37453"}],"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=37453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37456,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37453\/revisions\/37456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}