{"id":4672,"date":"2011-02-06T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2011-02-07T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:16:53","slug":"we-gather-february-6-sunday-tidbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/we-gather-february-6-sunday-tidbit\/","title":{"rendered":"We Gather, February 6 Sunday Tidbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4683\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4683\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4683\" title=\"011\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun shine across the pew from the stained glass window<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early in the morning after the children are settled in school I enter the huge Church doors that say \u201cGod Alone\u201d. <!--more-->Finding my familiar pew I nod good morning to the usuals gathered comfortably. The quiet of the Church is so soothing to my soul. I can see the sun poking its light just ever so slightly through the oranges and reds of the stained glass windows as if God is saying \u201cGood morning.\u201d We sit, we stand, we listen, we pray. We bare our souls to God deep within and we receive God in word and sacrament. There are no more than ten or twelve of us the majority over the age of 70, those dedicated to this sacred tradition. Their presence consistent and respectful, welcoming and loving, they are together as one body as we pray as one Church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong><em>For where two or three are gathered in God\u2019s name, God is there in the midst of them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em> (Matthew 18:20)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God is there at the morning Mass in the words of the scriptures, in the sacrament of the Eucharist, in the united voices of \u201cThe Our Father\u201d, in the whispers under the breath of the little old lady behind me saying \u201cPlease God please\u2026\u201d Daily morning Mass short, lacking all music or song, few followers present but in those sacred moments God fills that Church completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cFor where two or three are gathered in God\u2019s name, God is there in the midst of them.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}