{"id":64,"date":"2020-04-27T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/?p=64"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:17:41","slug":"ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a setting where the external display of one&#8217;s faith in dress, in facial appearance and food are visible markers of a strong statement of faith identity there is something very profound about going up to receive the sign of the cross on one&#8217;s forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sign of deep humility, of a personal commitment to turn from evil and turn to Christ<br>and an indication of a private inward grace;<br>and yet it, in leaving a mark for all to see and note, it&#8217;s a public declaration of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thought occurs to me:<br>How much more responsibly would we live out our faith day to day if marked by a visible sign of the cross?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setting where the external display of one&#8217;s faith in dress, in facial appearance and food are visible markers of a strong statement of faith identity there is something very profound about going up to receive the sign of the cross on one&#8217;s forehead. A sign of deep humility, of a personal commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}