{"id":2339,"date":"2018-03-02T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2018-03-02T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:57:13","slug":"beast-from-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/beast-from-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Beast from the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2340 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/images.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/>For a good few days now most, if not all of the country, has been experiencing snow, blizzards and very cold temperatures. The weather forecasters have called it the Beast from the East. It\u2019s an interesting name; although it can describe an animal, beast can also mean someone or something far more sinister like a brutish person wishing us harm, a vile creature of some kind. Of course the \u2018mark of the beast\u2019 is the stamp on the forehead or right hand of a worshipper of the antichrist. The short reading for Night Prayer last Tuesday was 1 Peter 5:8-9 <em>\u201cBe calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. Stand up to him, strong in faith\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When we do this the devil will retreat quicker than the current Beast from the East.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fr Steve<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a good few days now most, if not all of the country, has been experiencing snow, blizzards and very cold temperatures. The weather forecasters have called it the Beast from the East. It\u2019s an interesting name; although it can describe an animal, beast can also mean someone or something far more sinister like a brutish person wishing us harm, a vile creature of some kind. Of course the \u2018mark of the beast\u2019 is the stamp on the forehead or right hand of a worshipper of the antichrist. The short reading for Night Prayer last Tuesday was 1 Peter 5:8-9 \u201cBe calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. Stand up to him, strong in faith\u201d. When we do this the devil will retreat quicker than the current Beast from the East. Fr Steve<\/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-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}