{"id":6521,"date":"2020-12-20T05:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2020-12-20T05:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:09:47","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6521","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/12_18_20_Large.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/12_18_20_Small.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>From County Route 6 looking toward Lake George.<\/em> (Click image to see larger version.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Fourth Sunday of Advent &#8211; LK 1:26-38<\/b><br \/>\nThe angel Gabriel was sent from God<br \/>\nto a town of Galilee called Nazareth,<br \/>\nto a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,<br \/>\nof the house of David,<br \/>\nand the virgin\u2019s name was Mary.<br \/>\nAnd coming to her, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cHail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.\u201d<br \/>\nBut she was greatly troubled at what was said<br \/>\nand pondered what sort of greeting this might be.<br \/>\nThen the angel said to her,<br \/>\n\u201cDo not be afraid, Mary,<br \/>\nfor you have found favor with God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,<br \/>\nand you shall name him Jesus.<br \/>\nHe will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,<br \/>\nand the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,<br \/>\nand he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,<br \/>\nand of his kingdom there will be no end.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Mary said to the angel,<br \/>\n\u201cHow can this be,<br \/>\nsince I have no relations with a man?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd the angel said to her in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Holy Spirit will come upon you,<br \/>\nand the power of the Most High will overshadow you.<br \/>\nTherefore the child to be born<br \/>\nwill be called holy, the Son of God.<br \/>\nAnd behold, Elizabeth, your relative,<br \/>\nhas also conceived a son in her old age,<br \/>\nand this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;<br \/>\nfor nothing will be impossible for God.\u201d<br \/>\nMary said, \u201cBehold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.<br \/>\nMay it be done to me according to your word.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the angel departed from her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From County Route 6 looking toward Lake George. (Click image to see larger version.) Fourth Sunday of Advent &#8211; LK 1:26-38 The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin\u2019s name was Mary. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fourth Sunday of Advent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}