{"id":3656,"date":"2017-04-03T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T12:56:41","slug":"holy-week-and-easter-services-in-houghton-le-spring-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week and Easter services in Houghton-le-Spring 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted that we will be joined this Holy Week by Bishop John Packer for a series of talks journeying through Jesus&#8217; Passion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3686 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Week-2017-with-text-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"617\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Week-2017-with-text.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Week-2017-with-text-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Week-2017-with-text-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Week-2017-with-text-457x300.jpg 457w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 940\/617;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The week begins with <strong>Palm Sunday 9th April<\/strong> &#8211; we will process as usual from Rectory Park (get there about 9.45am) into church along with a donkey.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Monday to Wednesday<\/strong> there will be a Eucharist at 7pm with a talk by Bishop John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maundy Thursday<\/strong> there will be a Eucharist at 10am and at 7.30pm followed by the Watch (silent prayer and meditation) and ending with Compline (Night Prayer) at 10pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Friday<\/strong> &#8211; come and see our\u00a0Crucifixion Play at 12noon in the church grounds then at 3pm we have the traditional Good Friday Liturgy in church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easter Vigil<\/strong> &#8211; the first service of Easter will be at 7.30pm on Holy Saturday with fire and the lighting of the Paschal Candle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easter Sunday<\/strong> &#8211; join us for our celebration Eucharists at 8.30am and 10am. Then come and Engage with the Resurrection at 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted that we will be joined this Holy Week by Bishop John Packer for a series of talks journeying through Jesus&#8217; Passion. &nbsp; The week begins with Palm Sunday 9th April &#8211; we will process as usual from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3656\">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":[5],"tags":[357,137,136,24,138],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-dates","tag-easter","tag-holy-week","tag-houghton-le-spring","tag-services"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}