{"id":909,"date":"2014-12-26T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/when-heaven-and-earth-converge\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:00:36","slug":"when-heaven-and-earth-converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/when-heaven-and-earth-converge\/","title":{"rendered":"When Heaven and Earth Converge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>At Christmas, we have the opportunity to dwell in the fruition of this beautiful imagery: <em>Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.<\/em> (Psalm 85:10)\u00a0 We kneel at a manger to discover a mystery, a holy riddle, beyond human reasoning. He is Mary&#8217;s son, entrusted to Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth. He is God&#8217;s son, sung to by angels and visited by kings. He is the reconciliation of all that divides us, and, if we follow his footsteps, the one who makes us whole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4099847\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5450-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/LFk5e6dOegA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other At Christmas, we have the opportunity to dwell in the fruition of this beautiful imagery: Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. (Psalm 85:10)\u00a0 We kneel at a manger to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/when-heaven-and-earth-converge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}