{"id":23723,"date":"2023-01-25T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=23723"},"modified":"2024-02-09T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:43:40","slug":"lent-and-easter-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=23723","title":{"rendered":"Lent and Easter 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>If you select Lent from the Categories list on the right hand side of this page, it will show you a list of all the events and services due to take place<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lent may originally have followed Epiphany, just as Jesus\u2019 sojourn in the wilderness followed immediately on his baptism, but it soon became firmly attached to Easter, as the principal occasion for baptism and for the reconciliation of those who had been excluded from the Church\u2019s fellowship for apostasy or serious faults. This history explains the characteristic notes of Lent \u2013 self-examination, penitence, self-denial, study, and preparation for Easter, to which almsgiving has traditionally been added.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"vein\"><em>Now is the healing time decreed<br \/>\n<\/em><em>for sins of heart and word and deed,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>when we in humble fear record<br \/>\n<\/em><em>the wrong that we have done the Lord.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>(Latin, before 12th century)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There will be a number of events taking place during Lent, commencing with the Ash Wednesday service and culminating on Easter Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you select Lent from the Categories list on the right hand side of this page, it will show you a list of all the events and services due to take place Lent may originally have followed Epiphany, just as Jesus\u2019 sojourn in the wilderness followed immediately on his baptism, but it soon became firmly attached to Easter, as the principal occasion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25438,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"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":""},"class_list":["post-23723","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"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=23723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25439,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23723\/revisions\/25439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}