{"id":720,"date":"2012-02-26T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-02-26T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:36:17","slug":"peter-stannards-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday and The Revd Peter Stannard&#8217;s Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter2_7890c1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-722 lazyload\" title=\"peter2_7890c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter2_7890c1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>We were delighted to welcome the Bishop of Jarrow, The Rt Revd Mark Bryant as our celebrant and preacher on Ash Wednesday.\u00a0 The Bishop reminded us in his sermon that &#8220;<em>We are but dust and to dust we shall return<\/em>&#8221; and therefore to take ourselves a little less seriously.\u00a0 The Ash Wednesday Eucharist is a beautiful, moving and solemn service and this year&#8217;s was enhanced by some wonderful organ playing, by George Peebles.\u00a0 It was a special night to remember. Not least because, as well as leading our worship Bishop Mark came to license Peter Stannard as an Associate Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Peter has been with us since last Easter on attachment, but Wednesday saw him become &#8220;<em>legal and above board<\/em>&#8221; as Bishop Mark described it!\u00a0 It was a great pleasure to welcome Peter, formally, to St Michael&#8217;s Houghton, even though he has already become a valued member of the clergy team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter-1_7889c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-723 lazyload\" title=\"peter 1_7889c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter-1_7889c-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter-1_7889c-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/peter-1_7889c.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/180;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to welcome the Bishop of Jarrow, The Rt Revd Mark Bryant as our celebrant and preacher on Ash Wednesday.\u00a0 The Bishop reminded us in his sermon that &#8220;We are but dust and to dust we shall return&#8221; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=720\">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-720","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\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}