{"id":4174,"date":"2020-01-03T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2020-01-03T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:03:27","slug":"epiphany-house-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/epiphany-house-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany House Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4178 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/307-epiphany-blessing-1-300x131.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" \/>Blessed chalk will be available at all Masses this Sunday, 5th January, for the traditional Epiphany house blessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is the custom to use the chalk to mark the lintel above your front door, or a space nearby, in this way:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>20 + C + M + B + 20<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The year and the crosses are easy to understand.\u00a0The three letters either stand for the traditional names\u00a0of the Wise Men (Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) or\u00a0the Latin <em>Christus mansionem benedicat<\/em> (May Christ bless this home) a prayer you can say as you mark the doorway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed chalk will be available at all Masses this Sunday, 5th January, for the traditional Epiphany house blessing. It is the custom to use the chalk to mark the lintel above your front door, or a space nearby, in this way:\u00a0 20 + C + M + B + 20 The year and the crosses are easy to understand.\u00a0The three letters either stand for the traditional names\u00a0of the Wise Men (Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) or\u00a0the Latin Christus mansionem benedicat (May Christ bless this home) a prayer you can say as you mark the doorway. &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-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}