The Escape to Egypt<\/span><\/h3>\n13\u00a0<\/sup>When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. \u201cGet up,\u201d he said, \u201ctake the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n14\u00a0<\/sup>So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,<\/span> 15\u00a0<\/sup>where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: \u201cOut of Egypt I called my son.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n16\u00a0<\/sup>When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.<\/span> 17\u00a0<\/sup>Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:<\/span><\/p>\n\n
18\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cA voice is heard in Ramah,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>weeping and great mourning,<\/span><\/span>
\nRachel weeping for her children<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and refusing to be comforted,<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>because they are no more.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Return to Nazareth<\/span><\/h3>\n19\u00a0<\/sup>After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt<\/span> 20\u00a0<\/sup>and said, \u201cGet up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child\u2019s life are dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n21\u00a0<\/sup>So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.<\/span> 22\u00a0<\/sup>But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,<\/span> 23\u00a0<\/sup>and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the second day of Christmas, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God. The same day, Romanians commemorate Venerable Nicodemus from Tismana. On this occasion, His Grace Timotei of Prahova, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, celebrated Monday, 26 December 2016, the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate"],"better_featured_image":{"id":153447,"alt_text":"PS Timotei la Catedrala patriarhal\u0103","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":683,"file":"2016\/12\/DSC_7594.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"DSC_7594-890x594.jpg","width":890,"height":594,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_7594-890x594.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"DSC_7594-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_7594-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1482750357","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"70","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":153444,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_7594.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153460\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=153460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153460\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153447\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=153460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=153460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=153460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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