{"id":23685,"date":"2023-01-13T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_event&#038;p=23685"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:12:58","slug":"confirmation-service","status":"publish","type":"ctc_event","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_event=confirmation-service","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Service with Holy Communion in church and on ZOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome Bishop Gavin for a Service of Confirmation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lord, You send out Your Spirit to touch the hearts of all people,<br \/>\nso that they may believe in You and in Jesus whom You sent.<br \/>\nLook kindly on all candidates for Confirmation<br \/>\nas they listen to Your voice.<br \/>\nOpen their hearts to Your Spirit and bring to fulfillment<br \/>\nthe good work that You have begun in them.<br \/>\nAs we prepare these candidates for Confirmation,<br \/>\nmake each of us an instrument of Your love.<br \/>\nTeach us to appreciate what is holy in others,<br \/>\nand to be patient with what we do not understand.<br \/>\nDeepen our faith in the Gospel<br \/>\nand help us to pass it on by our example.<br \/>\nWe pray that You will continue to guide us and sustain us.<br \/>\nThrough Christ our Lord, Amen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome Bishop Gavin for a Service of Confirmation. Lord, You send out Your Spirit to touch the hearts of all people, so that they may believe in You and in Jesus whom You sent. Look kindly on all candidates for Confirmation as they listen to Your voice. Open their hearts to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_event_category":[317,319,318,313],"class_list":["post-23685","ctc_event","type-ctc_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_event_category-community","ctc_event_category-event","ctc_event_category-ministry","ctc_event_category-services","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/23685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/23685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24879,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/23685\/revisions\/24879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_event_category&post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}