{"id":4565,"date":"2026-06-14T18:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:10:07","slug":"today-at-our-churches-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Today at our churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4565\" class=\"elementor elementor-4565\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b17cafa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b17cafa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5802f45\" data-id=\"5802f45\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26aad2ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"26aad2ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">St Stephen's Church<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-49271e59 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"49271e59\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f31f2c7\" data-id=\"4f31f2c7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41c508d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"41c508d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-S.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4567\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-S.png 500w, https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-S-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-S-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7634b596 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7634b596\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Revd Peter Mallinson took today\u2019s service. Father Peter focused on the 12 apostles in the Gospel reading. Twelve is also a dozen. He drew a parallel to the Dirty Dozen movie: men whom the world did not hold in high regard were chosen and with the right moulding from an unconventional leader, they succeeded in their difficult mission.<\/p><p>Jesus is also.an unconventional leader who picked 12 ordinary men with no specific qualifications for an unprecedented mission. Jesus even said the mission would be like sheep going into the midst of wolves.<\/p><p>Today<strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>we<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>are the current \u201cdozen\u201d for Jesus. The dangers are not as big as for the apostles, but our faithfulness is required. Ordinary people are called to share the Gospel.<\/p><p class=\"last-child\">It was really good to have Father Peter with us!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6291a871\" data-id=\"6291a871\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75140092 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"75140092\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">St Leodegar's Church<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-7dca21e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7dca21e6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1515e761\" data-id=\"1515e761\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4cb0f599 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4cb0f599\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-L.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4568\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-L.png 500w, https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-L-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-14-St-L-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44bca48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44bca48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>Revd Roger Pullen took the Holy Communion service today at St Leodegar\u2019s. We had 14 people in the congregation. Jo Williams and her granddaughter, Lois, took the prayers, and Naomi played the organ for us today. Today&#8217;s sermon focused on Simon (the zealot) who was a political rebel who wanted to free the Jewish people from the Roman government. Simon had a &#8216;holy zeal&#8217; (passion for God) &#8211; we examined his intense human ambition, comparing it with the loving grace of Jesus. Simon learned to channel his fight against Rome into sharing the good news of God&#8217;s love. The lesson is that Jesus calls all types of people.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Stephen&#8217;s Church Revd Peter Mallinson took today\u2019s service. Father Peter focused on the 12 apostles in the Gospel reading. Twelve is also a dozen. He drew a parallel to the Dirty Dozen movie: men whom the world did not hold in high regard were chosen and with the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-leodegars-church-hunston","category-st-stephens-church-mundham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundhamhunstonchurches.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}