{"id":406,"date":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=406"},"modified":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","slug":"st-vincents-redfern-the-peoples-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"St Vincent&#8217;s Redfern &#8211; the people&#8217;s place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\"><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>o                            me, Redfern is a place where the Church is truly alive.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                         <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">As                            you walk in, there is a feeling of the church belonging                            to all the people who go there; and as you attend the                            Eucharist, there is a feeling of involvement in the                            local church and in all the major spiritual and justice                            issues of the day in the wider Church and world.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">This                            is a place where the people claim the liturgy, and where                            aboriginal people are recognised as the real owners                            of the land; where women, over the years, (I began attending                            Redfern in 1981) have become more and more included                            in the liturgy and the language of the liturgy; where                            children are accepted as themselves and where anyone                            can speak to an issue which they feel is relevant to                            the congregation.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                          This                            is a place where the Church truly accompanies people                            in their joys and sorrows, where people feel they can                            be themselves as they worship God. This is a place where                            the theology of the people has been greatly influenced                            by the presence and words of Father Ted Kennedy: without                            Ted St Vincent&#8217;s would not be the vibrant place that                            it is.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">To me, Redfern is a place where the Church is truly alive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">As you walk in, there is a feeling of the church belonging to all the people who go there; and as you attend the Eucharist, there is a feeling of involvement in the local church and in all the major spiritual and justice issues of the day in the wider Church and world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}