{"id":1996,"date":"2014-12-26T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:24:49","slug":"our-spiritual-journey-through-the-st-phillips-fast-friday-december-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiritual Journey Through the St. Phillip&#8217;s Fast, Friday, December 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theotokos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1997 \" src=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theotokos-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"theotokos\" width=\"173\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>Almighty God, Who in the feast that we have just celebrated manifested Yourself as joined to the human race, I ask You to help me celebrate this feast in a manner that will strengthen my belief in Your great love. Help me to see Your manifestation as a human and strengthen me in my resolve to live like Jesus lived. As I think about how You came into the world, I realize that You modeled for me what true humility is and revealed to me how essential it is if I am to truly become Your child. You also revealed to me, through Your birth, that simplicity of life is also very important. Help me, O Lord, to learn the lessons that You intended to teach me through Your birth. 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>Almighty God, Who in the feast that we have just celebrated manifested Yourself as joined to the human race, I ask You to help me celebrate this feast in a manner that will strengthen my belief in Your great love. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1996\">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-1996","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\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}