{"id":96,"date":"2017-01-27T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:36:11","slug":"childrens-mass-on-sunday-5th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/2017\/01\/27\/childrens-mass-on-sunday-5th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Mass on Sunday 5th February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">On Sunday 5th February 2017, a special event is taking place to combine a parish welcome to Monsignor Jeremy Garratt and to strengthen the links between St Peter&#8217;s and one of the two parishes from which it draws many children, the Waterlooville parish of The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Peter the Apostle.\u00a0 At the 10:30am Mass all children in the parish are invited to attend church in their school uniforms to take a lead role in the celebration of Mass, and volunteering if willing to help with readings, the offertory, etc.\u00a0 When this special Mass was first discussed, I was keen from the start for it to be for all children of any school in the local area to attend Mass in their school uniform, and not just those children at St Peter&#8217;s.\u00a0 So if you know of families with children who are not at St Peter&#8217;s but who attend Mass at The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Peter the Apostle, please do encourage them to come along.\u00a0 In time, it is hoped that such a celebration of Mass can take place in other Catholic parishes in the area, so Sunday 5th February really is a test run.\u00a0 I know it happens elsewhere, and I have recollections of attending the same when I was a child at St Bede&#8217;s Catholic Primary School in Weaverham back in the 1980s (<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">in short trousers with scratched knees and bruised shins as is de rigeur for small boys\u00a0I am sure<\/span><\/em>), so am keen for us as a school community to place children at the heart of our local parishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">We were lucky enough this week to host Fr Jeremy as he celebrated Mass with our Year 3 and 4 pupils.\u00a0 Fr Jeremy then set out on what was intended to be a visit to all the classes, but conversations with Year 3 about their taste in literature and quick-fire questions from Year 1 slowed his progress; a sign I am sure of a great relationship being forged between Fr Jeremy and the children of St Peter&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">Mr R Cunningham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">Headteacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 5th February 2017, a special event is taking place to combine a parish welcome to Monsignor Jeremy Garratt and to strengthen the links between St Peter&#8217;s and one of the two parishes from which it draws many children, the Waterlooville parish of The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}