{"id":1285,"date":"2020-03-19T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:36:28","slug":"1285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"3\/19  Feast of St. Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Our worship services, parish meetings and activities are postponed until further notice due to the coronovirus situation.\u00a0 Updates will follow as more information becomes available.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Feast of St. Joseph:\u00a0 Plenty Faith<\/h6>\n<h6>Psalm 75<\/h6>\n<p>We thank you, God, we give thanks; we call upon your name, we declare your wonderful deeds. \u201cI will choose the time; I will judge fairly.\u00a0 Though the earth and all its inhabitants quake, I make steady its pillars.\u201d Selah So I say to the boastful: \u201cDo not boast!\u201d to the wicked: \u201cDo not raise your horns! Do not raise your horns against heaven!\u00a0 Do not speak with a stiff neck!\u201d For judgment comes not from east or from west, not from the wilderness or the mountains, But from God who decides, who brings some low and raises others high. Yes, a cup is in the LORD\u2019s hand, foaming wine, fully spiced. When God pours it out, they will drain it even to the dregs; all the wicked of the earth will drink. But I will rejoice forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob, \u201cI will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6>Joseph was a lot of things but at the heart, a simple man with a lot of faith and patience.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t easy wondering and not quite knowing what was going on.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\">But he had faith, and knew his lack of understanding would be answered by God.<\/span>\u00a0 So he took Mary to Bethlehem, which had no room for them \u2013 but named the child Jesus anyway.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\">It wasn\u2019t easy wondering and not quite knowing what was going on.\u00a0 But he had faith, and knew his lack of understanding would be answered by God. <\/span>Then they had to flee to Egypt \u2013 running for their lives on stubborn donkeys.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\">It wasn\u2019t easy wondering and not quite knowing what was going on.\u00a0 But he had faith, and knew his lack of understanding would be answered by God.\u00a0<\/span> Joseph pray for us today as we pray for one another &#8211; it\u2019s not easy wondering and not quite knowing what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 Let plenty faith overcome all fear and lead us closer to God.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our worship services, parish meetings and activities are postponed until further notice due to the coronovirus situation.\u00a0 Updates will follow as more information becomes available.\u00a0 Feast of St. Joseph:\u00a0 Plenty Faith Psalm 75 We thank you, God, we give thanks; we call upon your name, we declare your wonderful deeds. \u201cI will choose the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3\/19  Feast of St. Joseph<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}