{"id":1304,"date":"2016-02-03T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2016-02-03T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:17:07","slug":"thursday-4th-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/2016\/02\/03\/thursday-4th-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 4th February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/files\/2016\/02\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/files\/2016\/02\/image-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1305\" \/><\/a>Today is sure to create special memories for our Primary 6 and 7 pupils.  Bishop Toal will celebrate Mass in St Bartholomew&#8217;s Church at 7.00pm, during which he will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on the children.  Please can I invite our whole school community, along with parishioners and friends, to pray for the boys and girls in these final hours of preparation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on those receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation this evening.<br \/>\nGrant them:<br \/>\nthe gift of WISDOM to see the world through Your eyes;<br \/>\nthe gift of COUNSEL to make difficult decisions;<br \/>\nthe gifts of KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING to use their minds to know You and to love You;<br \/>\nthe gift of FORTITUDE to have the courage to live out their faith, despite difficulties and disappointments;<br \/>\nthe gift of PIETY to be able to express their love and commitment to You;<br \/>\nthe right kind of awesome FEAR that makes them pause each day to wonder at and revere God&#8217;s amazing love.<br \/>\nAmen<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/files\/2016\/02\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/files\/2016\/02\/image1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is sure to create special memories for our Primary 6 and 7 pupils. Bishop Toal will celebrate Mass in St Bartholomew&#8217;s Church at 7.00pm, during which he will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on the children. Please can I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/2016\/02\/03\/thursday-4th-february-2016\/\">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-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbartholomews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}