{"id":1974,"date":"2014-12-20T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2014-12-11T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:24:11","slug":"our-spiritual-journey-through-the-st-phillips-fast-saturday-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiritual Journey Through the St. Phillip&#8217;s Fast, Saturday, December 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>O Heavenly Father, help me to truly join my voice with my Church and pray: O God<em>, let me celebrate the fore-feast of the Nativity of Christ. Let me join the Magi and the shepherds in their hymns of praise by chanting: Behold, the Savior of mankind has come forth from the Virgin to call back to Himself the whole human race. <\/em>Heavenly Father, it is my prayer and hope that I will truly celebrate Your birth in a spiritual manner, not allowing myself to be distracted by the way my society celebrates this feast. Open my heart and mind to the great love that this feast expresses. I ask this of You Who I call Father, Son and Holy Spirit not only now but forever and ever. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0O Heavenly Father, help me to truly join my voice with my Church and pray: O God, let me celebrate the fore-feast of the Nativity of Christ. Let me join the Magi and the shepherds in their hymns of praise &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1974\">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-1974","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\/1974","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=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}