{"id":8884,"date":"2025-12-11T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:31:10","slug":"schools-advent-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/schools-advent-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools&#8217; Advent Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday, student representatives from Y7, 8 and 9 went to the Metropolitan Cathedral for the annual Schools\u2019 Advent Service. Primary and secondary schools from across the Archdiocese gathered to watch an entertaining retelling of the Nativity story through song, dance and a few bad jokes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1365\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-1365x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8888\" style=\"width:643px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-1365x1024.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4466-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlight this year was the inclusion of a real donkey! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1258\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4488-1258x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8890\" style=\"width:647px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4488-1258x1024.jpeg 1258w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4488-300x244.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4488-768x625.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4488.jpeg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1258px) 100vw, 1258px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8887\" style=\"width:640px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4468-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students participated in the singing of carols and the event ended with a toy collection for Nugent &#8211; a lovely way to mark this advent season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, student representatives from Y7, 8 and 9 went to the Metropolitan Cathedral for the annual Schools\u2019 Advent Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chaplains-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}