{"id":22832,"date":"2019-03-29T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2019-03-29T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:43:08","slug":"mothering-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/mothering-sunday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothering Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22834 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2019\/03\/heart-for-love-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"253\" \/>e Fourth Sunday of Lent is mid-Lent Sunday or Laetare Sunday, from the first words of the Introit <em>Laetare Jerusalem<\/em> (\u2018Rejoice, O Jerusalem\u2019) from Isaiah 66:10. It\u2019s also Mothering Sunday \u2013 and we wish all mothers a very happy day! In medieval England, today was a holiday from work when people went home to the mother church in which they were baptised. As families gathered, they gave gifts to their mothers, hence Mothering Sunday, a day we pray for our mothers too, who through their selflessness carpet their children\u2019s lives with happiness. Please remember to say a prayer to Our Lady for your mother and grandmother. Let the example of their faith and love shine forth.\u00a0Grant that\u00a0we may honour them always with profound respect.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some prayers from the <em>Book of Blessings<\/em> you may wish to offer:<\/p>\n<p>1. For our mothers, who have given us life and love, that we may show them reverence and love, we pray to the Lord.<br \/>\n2. For mothers who have lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope, and their family and friends support and console them, we pray to the Lord.<br \/>\n3. For mothers who have died, that God may bring them into the joy of his kingdom, we pray to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent is mid-Lent Sunday or Laetare Sunday, from the first words of the Introit Laetare Jerusalem (\u2018Rejoice, O Jerusalem\u2019) from Isaiah 66:10. It\u2019s also Mothering Sunday<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/mothering-sunday-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22836,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}