{"id":17415,"date":"2019-04-21T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/?p=17415"},"modified":"2019-04-21T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:24:45","slug":"easter-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/easter-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning\u2019s Gospel from John 20, tells a story of <strong>persistence as faith<\/strong>. Mary Magdalene went to the tomb in grief, she called the acknowledged apostles to see what she had and even after they left&#8230;without a word, she stayed&#8230;hoping for something more tangible, that would explain all she was experiencing. Then, she sees _ a man_ but, blinded by tears of confusion and that elusive something yet rising within her, she asked him where he had taken her Lord. <strong>\u201dMary\u201d<\/strong> he replied; her name on a _breath_&#8230;that conveyed the _Spirit_ of illumination and in that moment, she knew! All that was rising within her came to full flower; a new day had dawned and with it, endless possibilities&#8230;for joy, hope and the experience of life, as Almighty God intended.&nbsp; <strong>Easter<\/strong>&#8230;Mary, tells us, that in the darkest times of despair, persisting in hope, even without physical supporting evidence, is an act of faith&#8230;in God, who will always call us by name and make _all things new_! Today, He calls yours and mine&#8230;all is well\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Contributed by: Canon Georgia &#8216;Grace&#8217; Jervis &#8211; via Diocesan Whatsapp Group<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning\u2019s Gospel from John 20, tells a story of persistence as faith. Mary Magdalene went to the tomb in grief, she called the acknowledged apostles to see what she had and even after they left&#8230;without a word, she stayed&#8230;hoping for something more tangible, that would explain all she was experiencing. Then, she sees _&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":17418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-message","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17421,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions\/17421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}