{"id":1389,"date":"2020-04-29T14:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:58:54","slug":"diocesan-novena-starts-29-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"DIOCESAN NOVENA &#8230; starts 29 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Diocesan Novena <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000;\">starting 7pm Wednesday 29 April<\/span><\/h1>\n<h4>A novena (nine successive days of prayer) is an ancient tradition of the Christian Church which draws us closer to Christ and to one another. I invite you, and your parishioners, to join me online <strong>each evening at 7pm from Wednesday 29<sup>th<\/sup> April to Thursday 7<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong> in offering a Diocesan Novena of Prayer.<br \/>\nEach evening, the novena prayers will be offered in St Peter\u2019s Cathedral, Belfast and will be accessible via webcam &#8211;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchservices.tv\/stpeterscathedral\">https:\/\/www.churchservices.tv\/stpeterscathedral<\/a>).<br \/>\nEach day of the Diocesan Novena, those who are suffering from the coronavirus, those who have died, their loved ones and those who care for them will be remembered in the prayers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you, or your parishioners, would like to include a special intention for this novena, please send an email to <a href=\"mailto:novena@downandconnor.org\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">novena@downandconnor.org<\/span><\/a> and your intentions will be placed before the Altar in St Peter\u2019s Cathedral, Belfast.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0I assure you of my continued prayers and again express my gratitude to all those who are caring for our loved ones during this pandemic.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0May the Risen Lord give us all His grace and peace.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0+Noel Treanor<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0Bishop of Down and Connor<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diocesan Novena starting 7pm Wednesday 29 April A novena (nine successive days of prayer) is an ancient tradition of the Christian Church which draws us closer to Christ and to one another. I invite you, and your parishioners, to join me online each evening at 7pm from Wednesday 29th April to Thursday 7th May in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}