{"id":6995,"date":"2021-04-03T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T10:42:17","slug":"holy-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/03\/holy-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6996\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9272215269_8766dc89e6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Traditionally on the morning of Holy Saturday (and Easter Saturday, by the way, is in a week&#8217;s time) the Church waits at the tomb of the Lord Jesus following the death and destruction of Good Friday &#8211; there is no Mass until the Easter Vigil this evening. The ancient tradition of Jesus &#8216;harrowing hell&#8217;, portrayed here depicts him retrieving Adam, the first human, from the underworld.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Morning Prayer (live-streamed only) at 10am. The church will be open for Confessions from 1030 until 1230.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many thanks to those who have enriched our worship on Good Friday &#8211; the Sisters who led rosary and Morning Prayer, those who organised the very moving Children&#8217;s Stations, the readers, servers, stewards, singers from the 930 Mass choir, together with Ann and Rob Higgs in the hall &#8211; while strange in many ways it was so good for many from our community to gather; thank you also to those of you who joined us through live-stream for these and other acts of worship yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0You can give towards the papal collection for the Holy Places through <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/donations\/\">www.saintedmunds.net<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0God bless and take care<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Fr Ashley<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6964\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rbe96e17ad28840c0bf7ed7d9be68f791-300x61.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally on the morning of Holy Saturday (and Easter Saturday, by the way, is in a week&#8217;s time) the Church waits at the tomb of the Lord Jesus following the death and destruction of Good Friday &#8211; there is no Mass until the Easter Vigil this evening. The ancient tradition of Jesus &#8216;harrowing hell&#8217;, portrayed here depicts him retrieving Adam, the first human, from the underworld. Morning Prayer (live-streamed only) at 10am. The church will be open for Confessions from 1030 until 1230. Many thanks to those who have enriched our worship on Good Friday &#8211; the Sisters who led rosary and Morning Prayer, those who organised the very moving Children&#8217;s Stations, the readers, servers, stewards, singers from the 930 Mass choir, together with Ann and Rob Higgs in the hall &#8211; while strange in many ways it was so good for many from our community to gather; thank you also to those of you who joined us through live-stream for these and other acts of worship yesterday. \u00a0You can give towards the papal collection for the Holy Places through www.saintedmunds.net. \u00a0God bless and take care Fr Ashley &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-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}