{"id":2289,"date":"2018-02-16T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:27:34","slug":"first-sunday-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/first-sunday-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"First Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2290 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cross-pictures-lenten-season-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>This Sunday you will hear how Jesus is driven into the\u00a0wilderness by the spirit. What ensued was forty days and\u00a0forty nights of fasting. It may help us in the first week of\u00a0 our Lenten journey to identify with Jesus and to see our\u00a0time in the desert as a period of preparation for what God\u00a0has in store for us.\u00a0Certainly God wants to fill us with His Spirit but in order to\u00a0be filled we must first be emptied.<\/p>\n<p>Masses are at the usual times:<\/p>\n<p>8.00 am Church Eileen Blackeby RIP<br \/>\n9.30 am Church For the people<br \/>\n11.00 am Church Richard Graves RIP (Latin)<br \/>\n5.30 pm Church For all parishioners in need (SVP)<br \/>\n7.00 pm Church Ints of Rosaleen Vesey<\/p>\n<p>View Sunday&#8217;s readings <a href=\"http:\/\/universalis.com\/20180218\/mass.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday you will hear how Jesus is driven into the\u00a0wilderness by the spirit. What ensued was forty days and\u00a0forty nights of fasting. It may help us in the first week of\u00a0 our Lenten journey to identify with Jesus and to see our\u00a0time in the desert as a period of preparation for what God\u00a0has in store for us.\u00a0Certainly God wants to fill us with His Spirit but in order to\u00a0be filled we must first be emptied. Masses are at the usual times: 8.00 am Church Eileen Blackeby RIP 9.30 am Church For the people 11.00 am Church Richard Graves RIP (Latin) 5.30 pm Church For all parishioners in need (SVP) 7.00 pm Church Ints of Rosaleen Vesey View Sunday&#8217;s readings HERE<\/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-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}