{"id":226,"date":"2025-12-06T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/?p=226"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:19:46","slug":"second-sunday-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Second Sunday of Advent | 7 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First Reading: Isaiah 11: 1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second Reading: Romans 15:4-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gospel: Matthew 3: 1-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary: to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image credit: Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the Wilderness<br>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Saint_John_the_Baptist_Preaching_to_the_Masses_in_the_Wilderness_oil_on_oak_panel_by_Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger.jpg\">Wikimedia<\/a><br>Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564\u20131638)<br>Acknowledgement: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liturgytools.net\/2016\/11\/pictures-2nd-sunday-advent-year-a-john-the-baptist-preaching-in-wilderness-jesus-from-tree-of-jesse.html\">LiturgyTools.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading: Isaiah 11: 1-10 Second Reading: Romans 15:4-9 Gospel: Matthew 3: 1-12 Commentary: to come Image credit: Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the Masses in the WildernessSource: WikimediaArtist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564\u20131638)Acknowledgement: LiturgyTools.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerardroberts.com\/matthew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}