{"id":171,"date":"2018-02-02T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-02-02T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:40:29","slug":"young-apologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/2018\/02\/02\/young-apologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Apologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In addition to our Religious Education Programme we\u00a0 offer pupils many opportunities to add to their understanding of their faith. Such is very important for our young people if they are to be witnesses to the faith and be able to explain the tenets of the faith to others even in situations where people may be quite opposed to the faith.<\/p>\n

Last Session, a good number of pupils thoroughly enjoyed the Paisley Faith Forum Series of talks in St Mirin’s Chaplaincy Centre and this Session we have taken groups to the first two in the current series of Glasgow Faith Forum in Turnbull Hall, Glasgow University.<\/p>\n

We have been able to give pupils a series of three excellent books by Fr Marcus Holden and Fr Andrew Pinsent : ‘Credo – The Catholic Faith Explained’; ‘Apologia – Catholic Answers To Today’s Questions’ and ‘Lumen – The Catholic Gift to Civilisation’.<\/p>\n

Some of our pupils are photographed with the books and Fr Gerry Byrne who is well known to many pupils and is a great supporter of the Glasgow Faith Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to our Religious Education Programme we\u00a0 offer pupils many opportunities to add to their understanding of their faith. Such is very important for our young people if they are to be witnesses to the faith and be able to explain the tenets of the faith to others even in situations where people may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhsfaithlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}