{"id":1198,"date":"2019-02-03T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:32:57","slug":"ash-wednesday-service-wed-6th-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/ash-wednesday-service-wed-6th-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday Service (Wed 6th March) and Lent Course 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Discover the mystery of God this Lent<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The last day before the start of Lent is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, which falls this year on Tuesday 5th March. It was traditionally a time to use up foods such as eggs, milk and butter before the start of the Lenten fast.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of Lent is Ash Wednesday, and there will be a service at St Peter\u2019s on Wednesday 6th March at 7.30pm. As Lent is a season for self-reflection, this service is an opportunity for us ready ourselves to receive afresh the forgiveness and healing that God offers.<\/p>\n<p>During Lent, we will be holding a small group at 6.30pm on Mondays at St Peter\u2019s church, to follow a course titled \u2019The Mystery of God\u2019. The small group will be led by Rev David Teece and will begin on Monday 11th March at 6.30pm and will run for 5 weeks during Lent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/lent-purple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/lent-purple-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/lent-purple-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/lent-purple.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the mystery of God this Lent The last day before the start of Lent is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, which falls this year on Tuesday 5th March. It was traditionally a time to use up foods such as eggs, milk and butter before the start of the Lenten fast. The first day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Phone_number(s)":"","email_address":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-pages","category-events"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}