{"id":15492,"date":"2020-11-26T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=15492"},"modified":"2020-11-30T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:53:47","slug":"advent-sunday-service-29-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/advent-sunday-service-29-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Sunday service &#8211; 29 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Sunday sees the start of the new liturgical year as the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>season of Advent<\/strong><\/span> begins. \u00a0Advent focuses our attention on the coming of Christ. \u00a0We live between two comings of Christ &#8211; his first coming in humility and weakness at Bethlehem, and his second coming in majesty and power at the end of time.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the pandemic back in March, we have been looking forward &#8211; to when the lockdown restrictions could be lifted, to when there would be adequate testing for the virus; to when a vaccine might be made available and life returns to some sort of normality.\u00a0 So we have lived in Advent for a long time now.<\/p>\n<p>But this special season of the church&#8217;s year does give us a chance to pause and focus the attention of our longings on Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we prepare to enter this holiest of seasons, let us reflect for a moment on how much we need the Lord&#8217;s salvation in our lives and in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>We will continue to worship online and from our homes this week.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Our service on Sunday 29 November at 11:00<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000080;\">will be led by the Revd Alistair Cumming, Church of Scotland minister, Clerk of the Presbytery of England.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Bible readings will be Isaiah 64: 1-9 and Mark 13: 24-37.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Look out for an email on Sunday morning if you have subscribed to our mailing list, and details will also be posted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday sees the start of the new liturgical year as the season of Advent begins. \u00a0Advent focuses our attention on the coming of Christ. \u00a0We live between two comings of Christ &#8211; his first coming in humility and weakness at Bethlehem, and his second coming in majesty and power at the end of time. &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/advent-sunday-service-29-november\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Sunday service &#8211; 29 November&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}