{"id":3299,"date":"2022-12-10T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:46:07","slug":"love-in-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Love in Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Advent we look forward to something better than the suffering and injustice all around us.\u00a0 We look forward to the kindness and generosity and compassion of God being fulfilled for all the peoples of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In Advent we look forward to \u201cpeace on earth, and mercy mild\u201d; it is the heart and soul of our faith.<\/p>\n<p>In Advent, because of the good news that in Jesus the Christ God has entered this world definitively to make all things new, we see love in action.<\/p>\n<p>This song of hope is what enables us to look past our fears and our hurts and our suspicions and view those around us with God\u2019s compassionate love.<\/p>\n<p>The love of God is what invites us to\u00a0accept the invitation to join in God\u2019s work of transforming all creation by making a difference in our corner of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will we listen to the Spirit\u2019s prompting us to accept God\u2019s love for us more and more and then to share that love with others?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3302 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent_Love.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Advent we look forward to something better than the suffering and injustice all around us.\u00a0 We look forward to the kindness and generosity and compassion of God being fulfilled for all the peoples of the world. In Advent we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3299\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","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\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}