{"id":7145,"date":"2023-08-11T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:01:29","slug":"the-conception-of-saint-mary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-conception-of-saint-mary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conception of Saint Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Conception of Saint Mary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>August 11, 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mother of our virgin Saint Mary Anne\u00a0was born in\u00a0Bethlehem\u00a0in Judaea. She married\u00a0Joachim. They were righteous people in front of God. Joachim reproached at the\u00a0Temple\u00a0for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord\u2019s service. They prayed earnestly asking God to grant them a child. They shared a wealthy and devout life at\u00a0Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day, they both received the vision of an\u00a0angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child. This was on Nehasse 7. Six years after they were married, they had Mary. The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary which means \u201cRoyal Incense\u201d because she would become a special offering to God. They knew that she was a special gift from God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Saint Mary was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the\u00a0Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up. Saint Mary, lived for 9 years in the temple then had to be cared for outside the temple. The canes of her male relatives collected for God\u2019s choice, Joseph\u2019s cane budded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May Saint Mary\u2019s intercession be with us, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of our virgin Saint Mary Anne\u00a0was born in\u00a0Bethlehem\u00a0in Judaea. She married\u00a0Joachim. They were righteous people in front of God. Joachim reproached at the\u00a0Temple\u00a0for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord\u2019s service. They prayed earnestly asking God to grant them a child. They shared a wealthy and devout life at\u00a0Nazareth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions\/7147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}