{"id":421,"date":"2022-12-25T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/?p=421"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:37:16","slug":"advent-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/2022\/12\/25\/advent-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Advent and Christmas<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In western churches, Christmas Day always falls on 25 December. In the eastern, Orthodox Church it is celebrated in early January. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ around 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem. Advent is seen as a time of preparation, looking back to Christ\u2019s birth and looking forward to his second coming. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day \u2013 so it can fall any time between 27 November and 3 December. In the Anglican Church, Advent is seen as the beginning of the church year. Some Christian traditions begin Advent slightly earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}