{"id":10599,"date":"2019-12-04T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/festival-nueve-lecciones-navidad-mojacar\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:48:26","slug":"nine-lessons-mojacar-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/nine-lessons-mojacar-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s Christmas celebration with a Catholic and Anglican festival of the Nine Lessons."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> One of the first events featured in the Moj\u00e1car Christmas programme is the one held by the two important churches that represent the religious life of the town.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Festival of the Nine Lessons brings together Catholics and Anglicans, to focus on the words from Genesis, which are read in both languages, interspersed with traditional Christmas carols from both cultures and singing by the Embrujo Mojaquero Choir. <\/p>\n<p>The celebration was officiated by the Santa Mar\u00eda Catholic Church Priest, Miguel Jos\u00e9 Esteban Jerez, and the Reverend of San Pascual Anglican Church, Vincent Oram.  Among those attending were Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Mayor, Rosa Mar\u00eda Cano, accompanied by her Councillors, Mar\u00eda Luisa P\u00e9rez, Ana Garc\u00eda, Raquel Belmonte, Agust\u00edn Montoya and Francisco Garc\u00eda Cerd\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican tradition of holding the Nine Lessons Festival during the advent season dates back to 1880, when the Archbishop of Canterbury designed the service for Christmas Eve in Cornwall, England.  The readings begin with the Old Testament and end with the Gospel of Luke, following the story of man\u2019s the fall and the promise of a new covenant with the birth of Jesus Christ.   <\/p>\n<p>To add to the evening event, the traditional Church nativity scene had been put together by Moj\u00e1car\u2019s parishioners.  This beautiful bel\u00e9n, as they are called here in Spain, features the work of the Murcian creator, Jes\u00fas Gri\u00f1\u00e1n, from the town of Puente Tocinos, renowned for this great minature modelling tradition.  Although the central figures of the nativity scene have been in the Church for a long time, new depictions of Jesus\u2019s life of have been acquired over time from the same sculptor, so it has now evolved into a display of great artistic and cultural value.<\/p>\n<p>As every year, many of the Catholic and Anglican faithful came along from Moj\u00e1car\u2019s many different nationalities to the Santa Mar\u00eda Church,  to jointly celebrate these advent dates as a prelude to some of their most important religious days of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first events featured in the Moj\u00e1car Christmas programme is the one held by the two important churches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10601,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}