{"id":21581,"date":"2022-01-02T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:10:51","slug":"christmas-messages-from-our-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=21581","title":{"rendered":"Christmas messages from our Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese.png 240w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese-148x68.png 148w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese-31x14.png 31w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Diocese-38x17.png 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>It was a different Christmas for many, and many churches, this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This year some of our Christmas services have looked a little different as we all continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Bishop Steven and Bishop Alan have both sadly been unable to attend and preside at Christmas services this year due to falling ill.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>However, the Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Gavin Collins has shared a Christmas message reflecting on his first year as the Bishop of Dorchester and a look ahead to 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/www.oxford.anglican.org\/christmas-messages-2021\/#toggle-id-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a different Christmas for many, and many churches, this year.&nbsp; This year some of our Christmas services have looked a little different as we all continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Bishop Steven and Bishop Alan have both sadly been unable to attend and preside at Christmas services this year due to falling ill. However, the Bishop of Dorchester, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,310,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-covid","category-news","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}