{"id":7060,"date":"2017-12-05T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/mojacar-festival-nueve-lecciones-villancicos\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:02:44","slug":"mojacar-christmas-carol-concert-nine-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/mojacar-christmas-carol-concert-nine-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s Catholic and Anglican Churches join together for Christmas carols and the nine lessons."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As an integral part of Moj\u00e1car Council\u2019s Christmas events, the annual service for the reading of the Nine Lessons and Christmas Carols was recently held in the town\u2019s Santa Mar\u00eda Parish Church, bringing together the Catholic and Anglicans for a cultural exchange.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The service was officiated by the Catholic Church\u2019s Parish Priest, Miguel Jos\u00e9 Esteban Jerez, along with Reverend Gerry Reilly.  Gerry, although already retired, continues to make Catholic and Anglican spiritual retreats and during December he will be officiating at the San Pascual Anglican Church. Also present, were Mar\u00eda Luisa P\u00e9rez, Councillor to the Mayor&#8217;s Office, Lucas Mayo, Citizen Services Councillor for Non-Spanish Speakers, Raquel Belmonte, Councillor for Culture and Ana Garc\u00eda, Councillor for Education.<\/p>\n<p>The old Anglican Advent tradition of The Nine Lessons and Christmas Carols dates back to 1880, when Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, created the service for Christmas Eve in Cornwall, going on to be a popular event throughout the world today.<br \/>\nCatholics traditionally perform readings on the four Sundays of Advent, but in Moj\u00e1car they also join together with others for this very endearing act of religious coexistence, devotion and joy.<br \/>\nThe Nine Readings, interspersed with traditional carols and choral music, begin with Genesis and end with the Gospel of Luke, following the story of the man\u2019s fall, the promise of a new covenant and the coming of a Messiah culminating in the birth of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p> Both priests closed their readings, in Spanish and English, with the prologue of Saint John.  The carols were performed in both languages also, by the Esc\u00e1lamo and Embrujo Mojaquero Choirs and members of the Anglican Church.  <\/p>\n<p>The event, as always, drew a large multinational congregation, all coming together to celebrate Advent time and, bringing a festive and joyful touch to the special days that lead up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an integral part of Moj\u00e1car Council\u2019s Christmas events, the annual service for the reading of the Nine Lessons and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7050,"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-7060","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\/7060","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=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}