{"id":3179,"date":"2018-12-15T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:10:08","slug":"a-spiritual-spring-clean-in-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/15\/a-spiritual-spring-clean-in-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spiritual Spring-Clean in Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo of Saint-Victoire (1096 \u2013 1141) urged all believers\u00a0in \u201cthe season of the Lord\u2019s coming\u201d to prepare themselves spiritually. \u201cWe must strive\u201d he says \u201cto enter the\u00a0house of our hearts, open the windows and notice what is\u00a0seemly and unseemly in that house. We must brush\u00a0away the cobwebs, sweep the floors, clear out the dust\u00a0and the dirt, strew the clean floors with freshly gathered rushes, fragrant herbs and sweet smelling flowers\u201d (cf.\u00a0Isaiah 40:3 ff; Matthew 3:3).<\/p>\n<p>Please remember our Advent Reconciliation Service is\u00a0next Saturday at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fr Steve<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo of Saint-Victoire (1096 \u2013 1141) urged all believers\u00a0in \u201cthe season of the Lord\u2019s coming\u201d to prepare themselves spiritually. \u201cWe must strive\u201d he says \u201cto enter the\u00a0house of our hearts, open the windows and notice what is\u00a0seemly and unseemly in that house. We must brush\u00a0away the cobwebs, sweep the floors, clear out the dust\u00a0and the dirt, strew the clean floors with freshly gathered rushes, fragrant herbs and sweet smelling flowers\u201d (cf.\u00a0Isaiah 40:3 ff; Matthew 3:3). Please remember our Advent Reconciliation Service is\u00a0next Saturday at 4.30pm. 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-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}