{"id":3285,"date":"2015-10-04T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2015-10-04T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:23:03","slug":"st-michael-and-all-angels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3285","title":{"rendered":"St Michael and All Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Michaelmass-daisies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Michaelmass-daisies-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Michaelmass daisies\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Michaelmass-daisies-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Michaelmass-daisies.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Little Lower than the Angels. Hebrews, 2:7<\/strong><br \/>\nMichaelmass, the season when the summer is coming to an end, a time when the beautiful warm weather starts to become a little cooler and the autumn approaches.<br \/>\nWe have seen the autumn equinox impressively this year marked by the super moon and the eclipse. A wonderful sign of God&#8217;s world.<br \/>\nMichaelmass was the time in the agricultural world when the summer seasonal work was at a close and those working on the land over the summer seasons would be looking for work elsewhere for the winter season. A time for change.<br \/>\nIn Thomas Hardy novels he makes full use of the season to show a whole army of characters with their agricultural implements and particular skills in field work to be present at a market of fair in the local towns.<\/p>\n<p>St Michael is the guardian angel\u00a0of\u00a0autumn\u00a0 or Michaelmass. He is\u00a0the Archangel responsible for courage and\u00a0bravery, he is the defender of faith and is known for his slaying of the dragon.<\/p>\n<p>Sermon for 18th Sunday after Trinity at All Saint&#8217;s Church Ashwicken 4.10.15<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FaithGoesWalkabout.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Little Lower than the Angels. Hebrews, 2:7 Michaelmass, the season when the summer is coming to an end, a time when the beautiful warm weather starts to become a little cooler and the autumn approaches. We have seen the autumn equinox impressively this year marked by the super moon and the eclipse. A wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}