{"id":8544,"date":"2025-03-05T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:39:14","slug":"cathedral-begins-lenten-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/05\/cathedral-begins-lenten-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral begins Lenten journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8551\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/05\/cathedral-begins-lenten-journey\/img_6282\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,813\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741186686&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6282\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-300x203.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-1024x694.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-1024x694.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-1024x694.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282-768x520.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/05153824\/IMG_6282.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Cathedral school community gathered for Mass on Ash Wednesday, 5th March, to mark the beginning of Lent. Pupils and staff received their ashes, a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4746\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2024\/02\/Lent-mass-1-e1707477925651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"151\" data-attachment-id=\"4746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2024\/02\/09\/lenten-masses-begin-2\/lent-mass-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2024\/02\/Lent-mass-1-e1707477925651.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"214,184\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1707338858&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lent mass 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2024\/02\/Lent-mass-1-e1707477925651.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2024\/02\/Lent-mass-1-e1707477925651.jpg\" \/> sign of being sorry for the wrong things we do and of our commitment to grow closer to Jesus in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Lent isn\u2019t just about giving things up but, more importantly, doing something extra to deepen our faith and grow closer to God. To help us on our Lenten journey,<span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong> Fr Lamb will celebrate Mass in the gym hall at 8.15am every Tuesday and Friday morning<\/strong><\/span>, beginning on Friday 7th March.<\/p>\n<p>A warm welcome is extended to all pupils, parents, staff and parishioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8365 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/files\/2025\/02\/Pope-Francis-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\">Please continue to pray for Pope Francis, as he remains in hospital:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/02\/23\/please-pray-for-pope-francis\/\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/02\/23<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathedral school community gathered for Mass on Ash Wednesday, 5th March, to mark the beginning of Lent. Pupils and staff received their ashes, a sign of being sorry for the wrong things we do and of our commitment to grow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/05\/cathedral-begins-lenten-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}