{"id":220383,"date":"2015-02-20T10:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/web\/?p=220383"},"modified":"2015-02-20T10:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:42:04","slug":"lent-news-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/?p=220383","title":{"rendered":"Lent news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in the season of Lent. It has been a tradition for our community to begin Lent on Ash Wednesday by joining Pax Christi and many other Christians for a peace liturgy outside the Ministry of Defence. We did so also this year. First we recognise our own sinfulness before we <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-220382\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-10.10.46-253x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 10.10.46\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-10.10.46-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-10.10.46.png 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>witness against and resist nuclear war preparations by marking the building of the Ministry of Defence with blessed charcoal. Pax Christi&#8217;s coverage can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/paxchristi.org.uk\/news-and-events\/news-reports\/february-2015\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year Ray Towey managed to write &#8220;Trident=Genocide Choose Life&#8221; on the wall of the Ministry of defence.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<em>Spending on nuclear weapons squanders the wealth of nations\u2026when these resources are squandered, the poor and the weak pay the price.<\/em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.va\/en\/news\/message-of-the-holy-father-on-the-occasion-of-the\">Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (7 December 2014)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a Lenten observance Scott is once again attempting\u00a0a 40 day fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in the season of Lent. It has been a tradition for our community to begin Lent on Ash Wednesday by joining Pax Christi and many other Christians for a peace liturgy outside the Ministry of Defence. We did so also this year. First we recognise our own sinfulness before we witness against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220386,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220383\/revisions\/220386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-6.thecatholicworkerfarm.org\/update_draft\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}