{"id":727,"date":"2017-04-01T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=727"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:25:00","slug":"our-paisley-synod-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Our Paisley Synod: Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about how our Synod is moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Our large Steering Group recently met and considered common themes and directions emerging from our nine Task<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-516 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Our-Lady-of-Paisley-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"261\" \/> Groups and came up with the following proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months,\u00a0they will develop a plan to visit parishes at their Sunday Masses, meet with parishioners and gather together an inventory of work the laity are already doing. They will also collect information about\u00a0new skills or services that the laity are now happy to volunteer to parishes and the diocese, as well as getting a sense of what parishes want\u00a0them to concentrate on first.<\/p>\n<p>Then, they\u00a0will work to match up these offers with parishes that want those lay skills and services so as to open up new channels of life and growth around the diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Our Paisley Synod. Our Paisley Diocese: All Together Sharing the Good News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about how our Synod is moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-727","format-standard","category-parish-news","category-diocesan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-bJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}