{"id":3460,"date":"2017-12-03T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2017-12-03T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:46:34","slug":"first-sunday-of-advent-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Sunday 3 December we celebrate a number of firsts as we begin our preparations Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In all 4 churches of our Parish, a special Blessing of Liturgical Ministers took place to\u00a0acknowledge and bless all those who have\u00a0committed to ministry within the Mass in our Parish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/wreath1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3462 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/wreath1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jessie1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3461 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jessie1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first candle on the Advent wreath was lit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The first symbols were hung on the Jesse Tree:<br \/>\nThe apple, The Arc, The Ladder, The Coat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At St Francis de Sales Fr. David continued his tradition of a special blessing for first time Altar Servers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ServerBlessing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ServerBlessing-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ServerBlessing-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ServerBlessing.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Sunday 3 December we celebrate a number of firsts as we begin our preparations Christmas. In all 4 churches of our Parish, a special Blessing of Liturgical Ministers took <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3460\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}