{"id":3855,"date":"2023-12-30T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:11:03","slug":"presenting-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/presenting-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p class=\"\">Our passage from Luke&#8217;s Gospel begins and ends with the Law regarding the birth of our Savior.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">v. 22 \u201cWhen the time came for their ritual cleansing, in accordance with the Law from Moses, they brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">v. 39 \u201cWhen Mary and Joseph had completed everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to their hometown, Nazareth in Galilee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will look at the impact that the infant Jesus had on people who saw him at his presentation and reflect on the impact that Jesus had in our own lives this year as well as how we desire to grow closer to him in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Luke says &#8220;The child grew and became strong&#8230;&#8221; Jesus, launched into the world, through the faithful hopes and practices of his parents and others who helped him to grow and be prepared for his adult ministry.\u00a0 How can we, no matter what age we are today receive the wisdom and grace of God to move us into new and creative ministries, sharing the good news in 2024?<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday as we receive the Holy Spirit into our lives and ministry. A gift from the King of Kings.\u00a0 We begin worship at 10 am.\u00a0 All are welcome either in-person or on-line and the bulletin can be found on this website in the virtual bulletin tab.\u00a0<strong>We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2b0f0259641e3ba7224f21ec1853b600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3856 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2b0f0259641e3ba7224f21ec1853b600-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2b0f0259641e3ba7224f21ec1853b600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2b0f0259641e3ba7224f21ec1853b600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our passage from Luke&#8217;s Gospel begins and ends with the Law regarding the birth of our Savior. v. 22 \u201cWhen the time came for their ritual cleansing, in accordance with the Law from Moses, they brought Jesus up to Jerusalem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/presenting-the-baby\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}