{"id":1895,"date":"2018-07-04T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2024-01-06T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:24:20","slug":"the-season-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?attachment_id=8098\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8098 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/A2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/A2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/A2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Our new Church year begins with the Season of Advent.&nbsp; Advent means &#8220;a coming&#8221;.&nbsp; The altar cloths and <span class=\"mark\">paraments<\/span> for Advent are blue.&nbsp; Blue is a royal color that is fitting as we ponder the coming of the King of Kings, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.&nbsp; It is also the color of the sky in which we will see him return in power and glory.&nbsp; Advent is also a penitential time similar to Lent.&nbsp; In preparing for our Savior who comes in the flesh, we ready our hearts through repentance.&nbsp; Our Advent repenting leads to rejoicing as the Scripture readings appointed for this time share with us that our coming Savior suffered and died to redeem us.&nbsp; The prophet Zechariah urges our rejoicing, &#8220;Behold, your King is coming to you, righteous and having salvation is He&#8221;.&nbsp; May our hearts be both penitent and joyful as we await our Lord and King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new Church year begins with the Season of Advent.&nbsp; Advent means &#8220;a coming&#8221;.&nbsp; The altar cloths and paraments for Advent are blue.&nbsp; Blue is a royal color that is fitting as we ponder the coming of the King of Kings, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.&nbsp; It is also the color of the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-year-seasons-and-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}