{"id":7153,"date":"2023-03-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:51:55","slug":"a-prayer-on-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/a-prayer-on-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A prayer on International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On International Women&#8217;s Day, we pray to the most inspirational woman to Catholics &#8211; Mary, mother of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Prayer leader reads the following aloud)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sit still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a few deep breaths&#8230; close your eyes if you are easily distracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of the women who are important to you in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of them and give thanks for them, as we pray&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hail, Mary, full of grace,<br>the Lord is with thee.<br>Blessed art thou amongst women<br>and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.<br>Holy Mary, Mother of God,<br>pray for us sinners,<br>now and at the hour of our death.&nbsp;<br>Amen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"877\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/640px-Raphael_-_The_Sistine_Madonna_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/640px-Raphael_-_The_Sistine_Madonna_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 640w, http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/640px-Raphael_-_The_Sistine_Madonna_-_Google_Art_Project-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Women&#8217;s Day, we pray to the most inspirational woman to Catholics &#8211; Mary, mother of Jesus. (Prayer leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chaplains-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}