{"id":6648,"date":"2026-01-27T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:06:38","slug":"the-joy-of-the-gospel-lent-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=6648","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Joy of the Gospel&#8217; Lent course 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"317\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Joy-of-the-Gospel-2026-Pic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6649 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Joy-of-the-Gospel-2026-Pic.png 577w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Joy-of-the-Gospel-2026-Pic-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Joy-of-the-Gospel-2026-Pic-500x275.png 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 577px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 577\/317;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Paula Gooder\u2019s book forms the basis of our &nbsp;Lent course this year at St Michael &amp; All Angels\u2019.&nbsp; The course is based on Pope Francis\u2019 much acclaimed reflections \u2018Evangelii Gaudium\u2019 (meaning \u2018The Joy of the Gospel\u2019).&nbsp; We hope this time together will allow us to draw on our Advent and Christmas reflections on Christian \u2018Joy\u2019 and how we share that with others through our words and actions.&nbsp; Our aim is to offer a positive and realistic approach to sharing our faith in world that often feels like it needs a bigger dose of joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All are welcome to join us, wherever we are on our faith journey.&nbsp; We may be exploring, be new to faith or we may have been part of church for many years \u2013 we think the course will work for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more, give us a call in the parish office (0191 512 1769) on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 10 and 2 or email us on <a href=\"mailto:stmichaelshls@gmail.com\">stmichaelshls@gmail.com<\/a>.&nbsp; It\u2019s helpful for us to know numbers but also, just turn up if you want to, on Wednesday from 25<sup>th<\/sup> Feb to 25<sup>th<\/sup> Mar.&nbsp; We mean it when we say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All are welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Gooder\u2019s book forms the basis of our &nbsp;Lent course this year at St Michael &amp; All Angels\u2019.&nbsp; The course is based on Pope Francis\u2019 much acclaimed reflections \u2018Evangelii Gaudium\u2019 (meaning \u2018The Joy of the Gospel\u2019).&nbsp; We hope this time &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=6648\">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-6648","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\/6648","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=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}