{"id":3373,"date":"2023-01-07T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2023-01-07T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:01:37","slug":"follow-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive-300x167.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive-1024x569.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive-768x427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Happy-Feast-of-the-Epiphany_1400x.progressive.webp 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The early Christians saw the fulfillment of their hopes in Jesus who would be the one to bring light into a dark world.\u00a0 They believed Jesus was the one who would \u201cdeliver the needy, the poor and those who have no one\u201d (Ps. 72:12).<\/p>\n<p>That is why the feast of Epiphany, what we are observing this Sunday, is such an important day in the Christian calendar.\u00a0 It is the day when we commemorate the visit of the magi to the infant Jesus.\u00a0 That story was seen as a literal fulfillment of the prediction that \u201cNations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn\u201d (Isa. 60:3).\u00a0 For the early Christians, the visit of the magi was another sign that the light was dawning in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday, January 8 as follow the star!\u00a0 The service starts at 10am.\u00a0 Join us in-person or on-line at Facebook Live or YouTube.\u00a0 The bulletin for our worship is found on the virtual bulletin tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early Christians saw the fulfillment of their hopes in Jesus who would be the one to bring light into a dark world.\u00a0 They believed Jesus was the one who would \u201cdeliver the needy, the poor and those who have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3373\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","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\/3373","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=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}