{"id":1601,"date":"2020-12-06T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:12:00","slug":"12-6-second-sunday-of-advent-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"12\/6 Second Sunday of Advent:   ACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, \u201cSee, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: \u2018Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The empty manger contrasts with the overloaded and full Bethlehem and reminds us of the one who came, and who is coming again.\u00a0 John the baptizer fulfills the message of Isaiah \u2013 crying out with his warning to PREPARE.\u00a0 As we celebrate the second Sunday in Advent we pray for the grace of God to join with the Shepherd King clearing the way to turn again and prepare for his return \u2013 knowing neither day nor hour, we wait for new heavens and a new earth and a new heart \u2013 God we offer our Bethlehems to you so that our manger hearts may be prepared and ready to receive You. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, \u201cSee, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: \u2018Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,\u2019\u201d The empty manger contrasts with the overloaded and full Bethlehem and reminds us of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12\/6 Second Sunday of Advent:   ACTION<\/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\/1601"}],"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=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}