{"id":93,"date":"2019-11-15T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:42:34","slug":"blessed-sacrament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/how-the-building-is-used\/blessed-sacrament\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed sacrament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box  gradient-container-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last gradient-column-1 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-widget-area fusion-widget-area-1 fusion-content-widget-area\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-widget-area-1 {padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.fusion-widget-area-1 .widget h4 {color:#333333;}.fusion-widget-area-1 .widget .heading h4 {color:#333333;}<\/style><div id=\"alg_back_button_wp_widget-2\" class=\"widget alg_back_button_wp_widget\"><a href=\"javascript:history.back()\" class=\"alg_back_button_simple \" style=\"\"><< Return to previous section<\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-additional-widget-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box  gradient-container-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-2 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last gradient-column-2 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP1719-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At St John&#8217;s we affirm the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the doctrine that Christ blesses us by being really and fully present in the sacrament.\u00a0 It is possible to seek to define how this happens with too much rigidity, but we trust in Christ and believe him when he says &#8216;This is my Body&#8217; and &#8216;This is my Blood&#8217;.\u00a0 For us it is the Blessed Sacrament.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, beside the Altar in the Lady Chapel, a white candle burns above the Aumbry, the curtained cupboard set in the wall in which the Blessed Sacrament is kept as a focal point for devotion and so that Holy Communion may be taken to the sick or housebound.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}