{"id":17995,"date":"2025-03-30T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:24:04","slug":"return-of-the-prodigal-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/return-of-the-prodigal-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Prodigal Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt Van Rijn, c. 1668<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(The image In the Lenten Sacred Space)<\/p>\n<p>You are invited to spend time reflecting on the telling of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Having quiet time with God each day.<\/p>\n<p>Opening our hearts to receive his love.<\/p>\n<p>Placing our total trust in God.<\/p>\n<p>Ending our day in thanks for his presence among us.<a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17954\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting-648x338.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting-368x192.jpg 368w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/prodigal-son-painting.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt Van Rijn, c. 1668 (The image In the Lenten Sacred Space) You are invited to spend time reflecting on the telling of the story. Having quiet time with God each day. Opening our hearts to receive his love. Placing our total trust in God. Ending our day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/return-of-the-prodigal-son\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of the Prodigal Son<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17996,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions\/17996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}