{"id":5490,"date":"2026-04-21T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:58:33","slug":"read-me-how-to-best-use-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2026\/04\/21\/read-me-how-to-best-use-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"READ ME How to best use this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The posts in this blog were building blocks toward the publication (half completed) of my <em>Liturgy, Day by Day<\/em> series of books (see <a href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy-day-by-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). Since the Lord taught us that we have received without pay, we should give without pay, this blog is no longer being updated, but contains a liturgical reflection on about 90-95 percent of the days of the liturgical year, shared over a period of 3-4 years on my social media. The remaining days I have completed in the books in the process of publication.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to search for a particular liturgical day in this blog, use the search tool at right and enter the day of the week, the liturgical season, and the week of the season. For example, &#8220;22nd Week Ordinary Time Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posts in this blog were building blocks toward the publication (half completed) of my Liturgy, Day by Day series of books (see here). Since the Lord taught us that we have received without pay, we should give without pay, this blog is no longer being updated, but contains a liturgical reflection on about 90-95 &#8230; <a title=\"READ ME How to best use this blog\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2026\/04\/21\/read-me-how-to-best-use-this-blog\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about READ ME How to best use this blog\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-1qy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}