{"id":493,"date":"2014-01-31T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T13:02:06","slug":"pastoral-prattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Prattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Great Fast almost upon us, I have been thinking about what I could do in order to engage our membership in faith learning activities. In the past we tried to hold classes after our Friday evening\u00a0\u00a0 services. We have all come to realize that this doesn\u2019t really work . . . by Friday evening we are all too tired to stay late. So my question is: <i>What can we do to make the Great Fast truly a time of special learning? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m open to suggestions. I was going to try video podcasting but then realized that I would need more equipment than I have and would anyone watch a video if I prepared one?<\/p>\n<p>What about scheduling a <i>Day of Recollection? <\/i>One day during the Great Fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Great Fast almost upon us, I have been thinking about what I could do in order to engage our membership in faith learning activities. In the past we tried to hold classes after our Friday evening\u00a0\u00a0 services. We &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-lent","category-parish-life","tag-metanoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}