{"id":16302,"date":"2018-12-04T22:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T03:58:28","slug":"rejoice-advent-meditations-with-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/12\/rejoice-advent-meditations-with-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice! Advent Meditations with Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new book of Advent meditations by Fr. Mark Toups and published by Ascension Press is worth considering for use this Advent or in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Sure I know Advent has already started and that I am late with a timely review.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts with an introduction in how to use these meditations along with a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/rejoiceprogram.com\/\">RejoiceProgram.com<\/a> where you can sign up to get links for weekly videos that supplement the material.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the familiar format for books of this type. A page and a half of the actual meditations along with a couple of suggested scriptural readings. Capped off with a short prayerful summary.<\/p>\n<p>I found the meditations to be worthwhile for both as a reflection for the day in Advent along with being a springboard to some further mental prayer. The scriptural suggestions are not just tagged on, but appropriate to the meditation. From the first meditation on, I found these to be focused and worth spending time on. Useful either as a short daily reflection or as a springboard to go farther.<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the aesthetic layout of the book. The choice of colors, fonts, overall design, and some illustrations made reading this book pleasurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new book of Advent meditations by Fr. Mark Toups and published by Ascension Press is worth considering for use this Advent or in the future. Sure I know Advent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16304,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/16304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}