{"id":4178,"date":"2016-01-14T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjameswatertown.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4178"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:59:58","slug":"blessing-of-babies-service-feast-of-the-presentation-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/event\/blessing-of-babies-service-feast-of-the-presentation-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing of Children Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_266259478\"><span class=\"aQJ\">SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16<\/span><\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0<\/strong>Each year, the Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord to the Temple, or\u00a0<em>Dyarnuntarach<\/em>, literally meaning \"the bringing forward of the Lord.\"\u00a0 This feast\u00a0always\u00a0falls on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_266259479\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 14th<\/span><\/span>,\u00a040 days after the Feast of the Nativity (January 6). It is\u00a0a beautiful story from the infancy of Jesus, in which he is confirmed as the Holy Messiah or Christ\u2014the world\u2019s long-awaited savior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armenianchurch-ed.net\/feasts\/presentation\/about-the-presentation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read more about the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>According to Biblical tradition, it was a custom in the Armenian Church for parents to bring their newly-born babies to the Temple of the Lord to present the child to God. \u00a0<strong>In keeping of this tradition, we invite\u00a0all\u00a0parents who baptized a child at St. James\u00a0in 2019, or anyone wishing to receive a blessing for their child,\u00a0to present their son\/daughter to the altar\u00a0for a special blessing immediately following church services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armenianchurch-ed.net\/images\/content\/presentationcolor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download a picture of the Presentation of the Lord for children to color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16\u00a0-\u00a0Each year, the Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord to the Temple, or\u00a0Dyarnuntarach, literally meaning \"the bringing forward of the Lord.\"\u00a0 This feast\u00a0always\u00a0falls on February 14th,\u00a040 days after the Feast of the Nativity (January 6). It is\u00a0a beautiful story from the infancy of Jesus, in which he is confirmed as the Holy Messiah&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/event\/blessing-of-babies-service-feast-of-the-presentation-of-the-lord\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4178","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4178\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}