{"id":8221,"date":"2025-03-05T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/lent-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:50:06","slug":"lent-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/lent-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">Today marks the beginning of Lent, a season of reflection and spiritual preparation. We invite our school community to join in this time of contemplation, focusing on personal growth and renewal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;background-size:initial;font-family:'Roboto Condensed', Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">Today Lord, I choose life,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">I choose your love and the challenge to live it and share it,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">I choose hope, even in moments of darkness,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">I choose faith, accepting you as Lord and God,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">I choose to let go of some part of my burdens,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">day by day handing them over to you,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">I choose to take hold of your strength and power ever more deeply in my life.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">May this truly be for me a time of new life, of change, challenge and growth.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">May I come to Easter with a heart open to dying with you<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">and rising to your new life, day by day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;background-size:initial;font-family:'Roboto Condensed', Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;\">Amen<\/span><\/p>\n<section data-featherlight-gallery='' data-featherlight-filter='a'>\n<div class='flex-container ie.uniquepublishing.notification.imagecontainer' style='display:flex;display:-webkit-flex;flex-direction: row;flex-wrap: wrap;justify-content: space-around;'><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the beginning of Lent, a season of reflection and spiritual preparation. We invite our school community to join in this time of contemplation, focusing on personal growth and renewal. \u00a0 Today Lord, I choose life,I choose your love and the challenge to live it and share it,I choose hope, even in moments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}