{"id":4909,"date":"2026-01-31T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:08:46","slug":"sunday-preview-blessed-are-those","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Preview-Blessed are Those&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The peace woven through the Beatitudes is not a fragile or fleeting calm but a deep, steadying presence that grows from living in alignment with God\u2019s heart. Jesus blesses the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, and the peacemakers, not because their lives are easy, but because they are rooted in a kingdom where God\u2019s grace holds every sorrow and every hope. This peace is born in humility, in the courage to hunger for righteousness, and in the willingness to extend mercy. It is the peace that comes from knowing we are seen, loved, and accompanied by God in every circumstance, it is the presence of God\u2019s transforming love, shaping us into people who carry that peace into the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/matthew-5-1-12a-reflection-elizabeth-wang.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/matthew-5-1-12a-reflection-elizabeth-wang-255x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/matthew-5-1-12a-reflection-elizabeth-wang-255x300.webp 255w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/matthew-5-1-12a-reflection-elizabeth-wang.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peace woven through the Beatitudes is not a fragile or fleeting calm but a deep, steadying presence that grows from living in alignment with God\u2019s heart. Jesus blesses the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=4909\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","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\/4909","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=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}