{"id":1825,"date":"2014-11-30T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:00:15","slug":"our-spiritual-journey-through-the-st-philips-fast-november-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiritual Journey through the St. Philip&#8217;s Fast, November 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/st-andrew-icon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1826\" src=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/st-andrew-icon2.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Andrew the First Called\" width=\"212\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>O Heavenly Father, help me to prepare myself, like Bethlehem, to be the place of Your truth birth. Help me not to live in such a manner that I say, by my actions, to you, there is no room for Your presence in my internal Bethlehem. Help me to truly understand that I can, with Your help, make my heart and mind a fitting place where You can dwell. I know that I can do this by transforming the way that I think and, therefore, the way that I act. I know that all I have to say is: Come, O Lord\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus into my heart. I will make room for You in my life and make Your Kingdom real by the way that I voluntarily respond to all who come into my life and to the events of life. I ask your help and offer praise to You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Heavenly Father, help me to prepare myself, like Bethlehem, to be the place of Your truth birth. Help me not to live in such a manner that I say, by my actions, to you, there is no room for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-prayer-a-day-for-st-philips-fast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}