{"id":627,"date":"2025-05-27T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:55:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"content__panel\">       <div class=\"page-content container padded\">                                               St. Mary Magdalene\u2019s church, \u2019a holy place where everyone is welcome\u2019 has always belonged to the anglo-catholic tradition and embraces the ministry of women priests.<p>Clergy wear liturgical dress and are assisted by Servers. Incense is used for festivals.<\/p>The congregation are welcoming, warm hearted and open to gradual change. We meet Sunday by Sunday to worship God and pray for his Spirit to enter our hearts.<p>Our principal service is the Parish Mass held each Sunday at 9.15 am followed by refreshments. Weekday Mass is held on the first Thursday of the month at 9.15am and&nbsp;Morning Prayer is held on all other Thursdays at 9.15am. The church has a small galley kitchen, accessible toilet with baby changing facilities and a loop system. We have an extended and recently refurbished children\u2019s area which is supervised during&nbsp;the Parish Mass by experienced church members using material appropriate to the&nbsp;church\u2019s liturgy.<\/p><p> The main event each week is the Parish Mass at 9:15am on Sundays.<br> All ages and all sorts of people are welcome. We have a children's group that runs during the service, and refreshments are available every Sunday after mass.<br> <br> For baptisms, weddings, marriage blessings, banns of marriage, and&nbsp;funerals, &nbsp;please contact the parish priest, who is also available for confirmation preparation, visits to the sick, home visits, visits to schools, &nbsp;and for other appointments.<br> <br><br> Please see other pages for more information.<br> <br> &nbsp;<\/p>                                    <\/div>     <\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achurchnearyou.com\/church\/18190\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image2.png\"><\/img><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"Phone_number(s)":"","email_address":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/outwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}