{"id":17182,"date":"2022-11-25T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T14:58:21","slug":"parish-newsletter-1st-sunday-of-advent-27th-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/parish-newsletter-1st-sunday-of-advent-27th-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Newsletter: 1st Sunday of Advent 27th November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17203 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1st-Sunday-of-Advent-Year-A-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1st-Sunday-of-Advent-Year-A-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1st-Sunday-of-Advent-Year-A.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>1st Sunday of Advent Year A<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Advent opens with a great promise: In the days to come the hope of a people who need God. &#8230;The master is coming is also a promise, not a threat to breed fear, but to answer our cry. So Advent begins, not with thoughts of the past, with the coming of the Lord we celebrate at Christmas, but with the future, and the promise that He is coming back. We are encouraged to stay awake, and treat every day as the day the Lord will come; we do not do this out of fear for a Master who beats his servants, but out of love of a Master who always treats us with mercy. Nevertheless we must always be watchful, because we can grow sleepy and complacent, saying that we can leave this prayer or that confession or the other change in the way we live to tomorrow. Even as we look forward to the tomorrow of the Lord&#8217;s coming, we must remember that it might be today!<\/p>\n<p>To view and download a copy of the Weekly Newsletter click <a href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.27-1A-CTK.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To view and download a copy of the Prayers of the Faithful click <a href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221127 Advent1 A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To View the Pastoral Letter from Bishop for the 1st Sunday of Advent click <a href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Pastoral Letter 24 First Sunday of Advent 2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make a donation click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygivinghub.com\/detailed\/donate?charity_id=1086324&amp;type=2&amp;reference=Y18&amp;amount=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st Sunday of Advent Year A Advent opens with a great promise: In the days to come the hope of a people who need God. &#8230;The master is coming is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/parish-newsletter-1st-sunday-of-advent-27th-november-2022\/\" title=\"ReadParish Newsletter: 1st Sunday of Advent 27th November 2022\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17204,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions\/17204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}