{"id":13,"date":"2013-11-20T19:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/?p=13"},"modified":"2013-11-27T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:07:38","slug":"this-is-my-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/2013\/11\/20\/this-is-my-first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 1 is the first Sunday of Advent.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notice the wreath above the altar space. It is circular to present time which is unending in God&#8217;s Universe. We light one candle each week in advent to represent how we invite God&#8217;s grace into our lives as we await Christ&#8217;s second coming. Advent is a time of waiting and what do we need from God this week that will help us wait in hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Mass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19\" alt=\"Advent Mass\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Mass-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Mass-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Mass-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Mass.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Purple is a color worn during Advent to represent the royal life we all share in Jesus. It is a humble call to open ourselves to serve and see Jesus in our surroundings. Here at ND, our co-workers, Family, neighbors, the poor, marginalized, and in ourselves is the kingly grace of Jesus. Do we recognize this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Prayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20\" alt=\"Advent Prayer\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Prayer-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Prayer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Prayer-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/files\/2013\/11\/Advent-Prayer.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 1 is the first Sunday of Advent.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notice the wreath above the altar space. It is circular to present time which is unending in God&#8217;s Universe. We light one candle each week in advent to represent how we invite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/2013\/11\/20\/this-is-my-first-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-staff-servant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}