{"id":2809,"date":"2021-12-11T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2021-12-11T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:55:01","slug":"advent-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Advent Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We have opportunities all around us to be the ordinary saints John The Baptist calls us to be. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What if<\/u><\/strong><strong> we went out from church looking for opportunities to be honest, kind, and helpful? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What if<\/u><\/strong><strong> we determined to seek out such opportunities because we\u2019ve heard that extraordinary acts of grace are within the reach of ordinary people. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What if<\/u><\/strong><strong> we believed \u2013 and acted on the belief, that being honest, kind, and helpful really makes a difference and can really bring JOY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us at 10am this Sunday as we reflect on the Joy found in Advent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2810 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cover-1-1.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have opportunities all around us to be the ordinary saints John The Baptist calls us to be. What if we went out from church looking for opportunities to be honest, kind, and helpful? What if we determined to seek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=2809\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}