{"id":1434,"date":"2017-12-13T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:54","slug":"gaudete-sunday-blessing-of-the-bambinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Gaudete Sunday: Blessing of the &#8216;Bambinelli&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the Third Sunday of Advent, bring your Baby Jesus figures to Mass for a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1435 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bambinelli-Gaudete-Sunday-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bambinelli-Gaudete-Sunday-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bambinelli-Gaudete-Sunday.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>Traditionally, on the Third Sunday of Advent, the Pope blesses the Baby Jesus figures that people will place in their cribs at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed Pope Paul VI began this tradition in 1969, and we will carry on the tradition this year in Neilston. It helps us to prepare for the coming of the Christ Child.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember to bring your figures to the Vigil Mass on Saturday 16th December and the Morning Mass on Sunday 17th December.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1438\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pope-Francis-Rose-Vestment-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pope-Francis-Rose-Vestment-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pope-Francis-Rose-Vestment-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pope-Francis-Rose-Vestment.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Third Sunday of Advent, bring your Baby Jesus figures to Mass for a blessing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-1434","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-n8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bambinelli-Gaudete-Sunday-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}