{"id":13068,"date":"2025-01-10T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2025-01-10T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:08:03","slug":"st-marks-church-west-wickham-congolese-chaplaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/st-marks-church-west-wickham-congolese-chaplaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mark&#8217;s Church, West Wickham Congolese Chaplaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks to a request from a parishioner, and with the approval of the archbishop, St Mark\u2019s will be hosting a regular Sunday Mass organised by the Congolese chaplaincy in London. The Mass will be celebrated in French and Lingala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All are welcome to these Masses which will fulfil the Sunday obligation. As far as I am aware there are few celebrations of Mass in our diocese in either French or Lingala so we hope that these celebrations will be a good way of welcoming French speaking African Catholics to St Mark&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first Mass will be celebrated on Sunday 19 January at 3.00 pm and initially they will be every fortnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Fr Ashley Beck<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer-958x1245.jpg 958w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Congolese-Mass-flyer.jpg 985w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a request from a parishioner, and with the approval of the archbishop, St Mark\u2019s will be hosting a regular Sunday Mass organised by the Congolese chaplaincy in London. The Mass will be celebrated in French and Lingala. All are welcome to these Masses which will fulfil the Sunday obligation. As far as I am aware there are few celebrations of Mass in our diocese in either French or Lingala so we hope that these celebrations will be a good way of welcoming French speaking African Catholics to St Mark&#8217;s. The first Mass will be celebrated on Sunday 19 January at 3.00 pm and initially they will be every fortnight. Fr Ashley Beck &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13071,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions\/13071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}