{"id":1756,"date":"2006-12-08T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/08\/behold-i-am-the-handmaid-of-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T19:34:00","slug":"behold-i-am-the-handmaid-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/08\/behold-i-am-the-handmaid-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/RXnAwTzQwFI\/AAAAAAAAACA\/ygx0S7XAFsk\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/RXnAwTzQwFI\/AAAAAAAAACA\/ygx0S7XAFsk\/s400\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006244396980551762\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus.  We look to our Blessed Mother as the greatest model of how we all should approach our relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from today&#8217;s Gospel:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8230;Mary said, &#8220;Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.<br \/>May it be done to me according to your word.&#8221;<br \/>Then the angel departed from her.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span>-Luke<\/span><span> 1:38<\/p>\n<p>(The Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of our Blessed Mother free from Original Sin.  It often gets confused with the virginal conception of Jesus in Mary&#8217;s womb.)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Today we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus. We look to our Blessed Mother as the greatest model of how we all should approach our relationship with God. Here is an excerpt from today&#8217;s Gospel: &#8230;Mary said, &#8220;Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.May it be done to me according&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/08\/behold-i-am-the-handmaid-of-the-lord\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}