{"id":3283,"date":"2022-12-03T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:53:52","slug":"peace-in-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"Peace in Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emmanuel, \u201cGod with us.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>With God being with us, we have peace. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is, God coming to be with us as we are. Not as we know we should be, or are trying to be, or have promised to be, or will be some day, but with us as we are now\u2026today\u2026in this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s the promise, that as God came before to be with, Joseph and Mary at the birth of Christ.\u00a0Also, God comes to us in Christ to be with us, to accept us as we are, and mold us by God\u2019s own presence. Yes, God is really with us. Really and truly as we are. Yes, this is our Emmanuel, this is our peace.<\/p>\n<p>Worship begins at 10am in-person or on-line via Facebook Live or YouTube.\u00a0 The bulletin for worship is found on the virtual bulletin tab on our website.\u00a0 May God Bless You!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/psalm72-1-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/psalm72-1-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/psalm72-1-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/psalm72-1-8.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Romans-15-13b-768x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Romans-15-13b-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Romans-15-13b-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Romans-15-13b-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel, \u201cGod with us.\u201d\u00a0 With God being with us, we have peace. That is, God coming to be with us as we are. Not as we know we should be, or are trying to be, or have promised to be, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3283\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","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\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}