{"id":714,"date":"2024-12-20T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/?p=714"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:33:48","slug":"start-the-church-year-during-the-advent-period-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Start the church year during the Advent period in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Advent\u2019 is derived from the Latin word &#8216;adventus&#8217;, which means &#8216;coming&#8217;. Indeed, during the Advent period, Christians live towards Christmas: the feast of Jesus&#8217; coming to this world as a little child in a manger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the celebration of his resurrection at Easter, his ascension and the passing on of his<br>inspiration to his disciples at Pentecost, we are told how the story continued in March, April, May and June each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus was a king in a completely different way than worldly rulers are. His kingdom and his kingship are of a different order. It is not about power and self-interest, on the contrary, it is about attention and help for the least fortunate, for the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having heard the stories, it is up to us to see who Jesus is for us: a king high on a throne or a shepherd walking with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is the image of the shepherd the one you start another new Advent season with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Advent\u2019 is derived from the Latin word &#8216;adventus&#8217;, which means &#8216;coming&#8217;. Indeed, during the Advent period, Christians live towards Christmas: the feast of Jesus&#8217; coming to this world as a little child in a manger. With the celebration of his resurrection at Easter, his ascension and the passing on of hisinspiration to his disciples at &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-advent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaclara.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}