{"id":2910,"date":"2015-11-30T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:17:33","slug":"darkness-is-no-darkness-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Darkness is no darkness with you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our candlelit Advent Service last night focused on finding, meeting and discovering God in the darkness. It featured beautiful music from our choir and different stories from the Bible of how people encountered God in the darkness. May you have a blessed, refreshing and meditative Advent season.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Even darkness is no darkness with you;<br \/>\n<span class=\"vlindent\">the night is as clear as the day; <\/span><br \/>\ndarkness and light to you are both alike.<\/h2>\n<h2>&#8211; Psalm 139:11<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2919 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3099-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"CC4A3099\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3099-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3099-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 683px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 683\/1024;\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some images from this beautiful, thought-provoking service taken by John Lambton:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2910 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2911'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3081-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3081-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3081-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CC4A3081-450x300.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; 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It featured beautiful music from our choir and different stories from the Bible of how people encountered God in the darkness. May you have &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=2910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[67,70,78,219,217,220,212,218],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-advent","tag-candlelit","tag-carols","tag-darkness","tag-images","tag-light","tag-photos","tag-pictures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}