{"id":4670,"date":"2017-12-05T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2017-12-05T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T12:21:59","slug":"christmas-reconciliation-service-13-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/christmas-reconciliation-service-13-12-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Reconciliation Service &#8211; 13.12.2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHURCH \u2013 A HOSPITAL FOR SINNERS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Christmas Reconciliation Service<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Where:\u00a0 St. Mary\u2019s Priory, Tallaght Village<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0 Wednesday, 13<sup>th<\/sup> December, at 7.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Christmas brings its own stresses and strains for many people it is also a time where people often take the opportunity to make new beginnings in damaged relationships.\u00a0 It can be a time of great healing between people and in families.\u00a0 This is also true of our relationship with God.\u00a0 The birth of Jesus, Emmanuel, reminds us that God is with us in all the beauty and brokenness of our lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We live in a rapidly changing world and a rapidly changing Church which brings its own opportunities and challenges.\u00a0 This year we have the opportunity to explore a new way to be Church together in the area of reconciliation.\u00a0 We will have one Reconciliation Service this year for our Tallaght Deanery (10 parishes).\u00a0 It promises to be a beautiful evening of reflection and healing.\u00a0 Priests from each of the ten parishes in our deanery will be present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be <strong><u>NO<\/u> <\/strong>Reconciliation Service in individual parishes this year.\u00a0 We are combining resources to have one quality liturgy.\u00a0 This is an act of communion, of working more closely together in new ways, to encourage and support one another in faith, hope and love.\u00a0 This new arrangement at deanery level is a response to the increasing demands and diminishing resources among priests and parish communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do join us in this golden opportunity for healing, prayer and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHURCH \u2013 A HOSPITAL FOR SINNERS;<br \/>\nWhere:  St. Mary\u2019s Priory, Tallaght Village;<br \/>\nWhen:  Wednesday, 13th December, at 7.30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}