{"id":3974,"date":"2017-02-18T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2017-02-25T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T14:19:35","slug":"the-world-day-of-prayer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/the-world-day-of-prayer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Day of Prayer 2017 (3rd March)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The World Day of Prayer<\/strong>\u00a0is an international\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecumenical\">ecumenical<\/a>\u00a0Christian laywomen\u2019s initiative and is celebrated annually in over 170 countries on the first Friday in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year, the worship service focuses on a different country and a specific theme. This year the service has been prepared by the women of the Philippines. On <strong>Friday 3rd March<\/strong>, all over the world the Philippines will become the focus of prayer and understanding. Through preparation and participation in the worship service, women worldwide learn how their sisters of other countries, languages and cultures understand the biblical passages in their context. The World Day of Prayer aims to demonstrate that prayer and action are inseparable and that both have immeasurable influence in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You are warmly welcome come to this prayer service which will take place this year in <strong>St Mary\u2019s Church, Dominican Priory,<\/strong> Tallaght on <strong>Friday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> March at 8.00pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3976 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable-140x187.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable-1170x1560.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_Poster_Event_Fillable.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Day of Prayer\u00a0is an international\u00a0ecumenical\u00a0Christian laywomen\u2019s initiative and is celebrated annually in over 170 countries on the first Friday in March. Every year, the worship service focuses on a different country and a specific theme. This year the service has been prepared by the women of the Philippines. On Friday 3rd March, all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}