{"id":2040,"date":"2018-07-05T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2024-01-06T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T16:23:52","slug":"the-season-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?attachment_id=8163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C3.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C3-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C3-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The season of Christmas begins on December 25th and lasts until Epiphany on January 6th.&nbsp; On the Christian calendar, these are the 12 days of Christmas.&nbsp; Our Scripture readings remind us of things we observe in this short season.&nbsp; Of course, we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Word become flesh.&nbsp; We confess His Holy Nativity in the Nicene Creed, &#8220;who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man&#8221;.&nbsp; On December 28<span class=\"mark\">th<\/span>, we observe the festival of The Holy Innocents.&nbsp; This memorializes when King Herod ordered all boys two years old and under to be killed.&nbsp; In his murderous jealousy, he felt threatened by the talk and prophecy over this newborn King.&nbsp; These children were the first martyrs for Christ.&nbsp; We remember the warning of the Angel to Joseph to take his family and flee to Egypt to be safe from Herod.&nbsp; There is also a festival day within this season on January 1st.&nbsp; We observe the Circumcision and Name of Jesus.&nbsp; This festival will be a separate article coming soon.&nbsp; Though a short season, they are twelve very special days.&nbsp; Oh come to us, Abide with us, Our Lord Immanuel !!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Christmas Season Gospel Readings&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; Matthew 1:18-25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John 1:1-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matthew 2:13-23&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;L<span class=\"mark\">uke<\/span> 12:35-40&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Luke 2:21&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Luke 2:40-52<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of Christmas begins on December 25th and lasts until Epiphany on January 6th.&nbsp; On the Christian calendar, these are the 12 days of Christmas.&nbsp; Our Scripture readings remind us of things we observe in this short season.&nbsp; Of course, we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Word become [&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-2040","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\/2040","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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}