{"id":4649,"date":"2018-12-30T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T20:46:50","slug":"christmas-eve-at-st-michaels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=4649","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve at St Michael&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an exceedingly busy and joyful Christmas Eve at St Michael&#8217;s with the delightful Crib Service at 3pm.&nbsp; This very well attended service gave every child a role in the nativity as we shared in the miraculous Christmas story.<\/p>\n<p>A packed church at 7pm for the Carol service where the musical director George Peebles and the choir outdid themselves with a wonderful selection of modern and traditional Christmas music.&nbsp; The hand bell ringers played a delightful selection of music before and after the service and we heard a variety of readings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then those of us with any stamina left welcomed in Christmas morning at a very atmospheric Midnight Mass.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4650 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48405225_1062161950622887_1909837820407578624_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48405225_1062161950622887_1909837820407578624_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48405225_1062161950622887_1909837820407578624_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48405225_1062161950622887_1909837820407578624_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48405225_1062161950622887_1909837820407578624_n-400x300.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 960\/720;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an exceedingly busy and joyful Christmas Eve at St Michael&#8217;s with the delightful Crib Service at 3pm.&nbsp; This very well attended service gave every child a role in the nativity as we shared in the miraculous Christmas story. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=4649\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","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=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}