Lent: Learning to Love\u00a0Like Jesus<\/em><\/a>, says, \u2018There is not the slightest doubt in my\u00a0mind that a good Lent makes for a wonderful Easter.\u2019 I\u00a0wholeheartedly agree!<\/p>\nFr Steve<\/em><\/p>\n*If you are unable to attend the Stations of the Cross on\u00a0Friday evenings, Fr Steve would like to encourage you to\u00a0follow them alone or with a group of friends at any time.\u00a0There are booklets on the tables at the back of the church\u00a0to help guide you.\u00a0Please would you return them to the table after you have\u00a0used them.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Claver Convent will also have Stations of the Cross\u00a0every Friday during Lent at 3pm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the\u00a0Lenten journey. I am sure some of you need no\u00a0reminding of this! Too often the Season of Lent can be\u00a0seen as a miserable and joyless period of time endured\u00a0with gritted teeth and dogged determination. However,\u00a0Lent can be, for all of us, a positive journey of spiritual\u00a0growth if we approach it in the right way, with a willingness\u00a0to embrace our cross and walk with Jesus as he\u00a0carries his own. A beautiful and powerful way of doing this is by coming to\u00a0the Stations of the Cross here in the church, on Fridays at 7pm*.\u00a0Fr Sean Finnegan in his book Lent: Learning to Love\u00a0Like Jesus, says, \u2018There is not the slightest doubt in my\u00a0mind that a good Lent makes for a wonderful Easter.\u2019 I\u00a0wholeheartedly agree! Fr Steve *If you are unable to attend the Stations of the Cross on\u00a0Friday evenings, Fr Steve would like to encourage you to\u00a0follow them alone or with a group of friends at any time.\u00a0There are booklets on the tables at the back of the church\u00a0to help guide you.\u00a0Please would you return them to the table after you have\u00a0used them. The Claver Convent will also have Stations of the Cross\u00a0every Friday during Lent at 3pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the\u00a0Lenten journey. I am sure some of you need no\u00a0reminding of this! Too often the Season of Lent can ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ashnews11Feb2018-300x169.jpg\")
be\u00a0seen as a miserable and joyless period of time endured\u00a0with gritted teeth and dogged determination. However,\u00a0Lent can be, for all of us, a positive journey of spiritual\u00a0growth if we approach it in the right way, with a willingness\u00a0to embrace our cross and walk with Jesus as he\u00a0carries his own.<\/p>\n