{"id":201,"date":"2012-10-11T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2012-11-15T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T00:25:22","slug":"the-feast-of-the-maternity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/the-feast-of-the-maternity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This important and lovely feast day celebrates the fact that Mary, Most Holy was (and is forever) the Mother of the God-Man, Jesus, the only Christ.  The human and divine exist in Jesus Christ, fully and completely and His dear Mother is therefore declared THEOTOKOS, the true Mother of God.<\/p>\n<p>Because she said yes to God, &#8220;Behold the Handmaid of the Lord;  Be it done to me according to thy word,&#8221; she brought forth the Redeemer of all mankind.  She is also our dear and glorious Mother, who always and most assuredly leads us to her Son.  It is the Will of Almighty God that we have a filial devotion to her.  <\/p>\n<p>Lovely Lady, dressed in blue<br \/>\nTeach me how to pray!<br \/>\nGod was just your little Boy,<br \/>\ntell me what to say.<br \/>\nDid you lift Him up, sometimes,<br \/>\ngently on your knee?<br \/>\nDid you sing to Him the way<br \/>\nmother sings to me?<br \/>\nDid you hold His hand at night?<br \/>\nDid you ever try<br \/>\nTelling stories of the world?<br \/>\nO! and did He cry?<br \/>\nDo you really think He cares<br \/>\nIf I tell Him things-<br \/>\nLittle things that happen<br \/>\nand do the angels&#8217; wings<br \/>\nmake a noise?, and can He hear<br \/>\nme if I speak low?<br \/>\nDoes He understand me now?<br \/>\nTell me- for you know.<br \/>\nLovely Lady dressed in blue,<br \/>\nTeach me how to pray!<br \/>\nGod was just your little Boy<br \/>\nand you know the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This important and lovely feast day celebrates the fact that Mary, Most Holy was (and is forever) the Mother of the God-Man, Jesus, the only Christ. The human and divine exist in Jesus Christ, fully and completely and His dear Mother is therefore declared THEOTOKOS, the true Mother of God. Because she said yes to God, &#8220;Behold the Handmaid of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/the-feast-of-the-maternity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,67,121,120],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-almighty-god","tag-jesus-christ","tag-lovely-lady","tag-theotokos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}