{"id":1915,"date":"2014-12-08T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:18:06","slug":"our-spiritual-journey-through-the-st-phillips-fast-monday-december-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiritual Journey Through the St. Phillip&#8217;s Fast, Monday, December 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O most merciful God, the time is quickly passing before we celebrate the feast of Your Nativity and Your Manifestation as the God-man Jesus. Help me not to allow the preparations for Christmas to distract me from preparing myself spiritually to celebrate these feasts. Help me from getting caught-up in the traditional, hectic pace suggested by\u00a0\u00a0 society for the celebration of Christmas. I know that if I allow myself to become fully focused on sending cards, buying presents, decorating the house and preparing food, I will forget to prepare myself spiritually for these feasts &#8211; I will forget the true meaning of these feasts. 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 most merciful God, the time is quickly passing before we celebrate the feast of Your Nativity and Your Manifestation as the God-man Jesus. Help me not to allow the preparations for Christmas to distract me from preparing myself spiritually &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1915\">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-1915","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\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}