{"id":4628,"date":"2020-02-06T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancasterpriory.org\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:39:11","slug":"4628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Candlemas &#038; The Feast of the Child Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">This year Candlemas was celebrated on 2 February, 40 days after Jesus&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 Also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ and the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It marks the end of the season of Epiphany.\u00a0 Traditionally, people would bring their candles to church for a blessing on this day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Another tradition revisited at the Priory today was the Feast of the Child Bishop.\u00a0 The words from the Magnificat &#8216;He hath put down the mighty from their seat: and hath exalted the humble and meek&#8217; were taken literally.\u00a0 The youngest children in the choir removed the vicar from the pulpit and replaced him with a Child Bishop who gave a short sermon and the blessing at the end of Evensong.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Candlemas was celebrated on 2 February, 40 days after Jesus&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 Also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ and the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. It marks the end of the season of Epiphany.\u00a0 Traditionally, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}