{"id":1112,"date":"2013-10-07T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:25:54","slug":"st-michael-and-all-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"St Michael and All Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michaelmass, St Michael and All Angels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"St Michael,Ashwicken\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stmichaelashwicken-1.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gentle and brave, gallant and bold.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michaelmass, summer is coming to an end, a time when the beautiful warm weather starts to become a little cooler as autumn approaches.<br \/>\nSeptember 21st is the time when the sun is at the autumn equinox and directly overhead at the tropics, the time of spring tides and full moon.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt Michaelmass in the agricultural world, the summer seasonal work was at a close and those working on the land  would be looking for work elsewhere for the winter season.  A time for change.<\/p>\n<p>But angels! And St Michael&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> The strange thing about angels is they are often in church, as wooden angels in the roof or in other places, but it is seldom that we talk about angels.<br \/>\nOutside the church, it&#8217;s different, people often talk about angels, guardian angels, messengers, spiritual beings, moving from one place to the next, moving from heaven to earth.<br \/>\nFor many people, searching for some signs of spirituality the concept of angels is a real help. They are visible, in the form that we imagine them in, whereas God is very hard to imagine in any visual sense.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is seen as the chief of archangels, a defender, guardian, protector of Israel. He is shown in Daniel as a warrior and of course in Revelation he is the slayer of the dragon and also the angel who cast out the Satan from the heavenly thrones.<\/p>\n<p>Michaelmass is the celebration of St Michael who above all was;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"St Michael\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stmichael.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"194\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Gentle and brave, gallant and bold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sermon on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\">www.faithgoeswalkabout.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curate in Gayton Group of Parishes<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaelmass, St Michael and All Angels &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Gentle and brave, gallant and bold. Michaelmass, summer is coming to an end, a time when the beautiful warm weather starts to become a little cooler as autumn approaches. September 21st is the time when the sun is at the autumn equinox and directly overhead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-theological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}