{"id":9740,"date":"2023-10-26T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:01:19","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>The Liturgy of the Word<\/strong><br>After the Collect (opening prayer), we begin the Liturgy of the Word.\u00a0 This includes all the readings, the homily the Creed, and the Prayers of the Faithful (aka General Intercessions).\u00a0 The readings we share are the inspired Word of God.\u00a0 They were written down by human hands and thus are influenced by the humans but ultimately they deliver God\u2019s message.\u00a0 The Bible tells us the story of Salvation History.\u00a0 It includes human sin.\u00a0 Sin is the rejection of what God has taught us.\u00a0 The Word of God tells us how over and over humans have turned away from God.\u00a0 The good news is that <strong><em>every time<\/em><\/strong> we sin, God forgives us when we repent.\u00a0 The gospels tell us that Jesus dies for our sins.\u00a0 This starts at the heart of our faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(All previous articles in this series can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liturgy of the WordAfter the Collect (opening prayer), we begin the Liturgy of the Word.\u00a0 This includes all the readings, the homily the Creed, and the Prayers of the Faithful (aka General Intercessions).\u00a0 The readings we share are the inspired Word of God.\u00a0 They were written down by human hands and thus are influenced &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #12&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}