{"id":3004,"date":"2009-12-22T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2009-12-22T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T21:00:51","slug":"a-very-special-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3004","title":{"rendered":"A very special day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?attachment_id=3003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3003\" title=\"Communion Sunday I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-I-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Communion Sunday I\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-I-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-I.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?attachment_id=3007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3007\" title=\"Communion Sunday II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-II-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Communion Sunday II\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-II-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Communion-Sunday-II.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last Sunday, December 20, 2009, Mary Clare participated in the Holy Eucharist!\u00a0 She has been asking for several months if she can take &#8220;munion&#8221; with us.\u00a0 We spoke to Father Michael about it and remembered that McCanless also had her first communion at 2 1\/2, on Father&#8217;s Day in 2006.\u00a0 He is a firm believer in allowing children to participate, especially when they show an interest, and allowing them, as baptized Christians, the right to this very important Holy Sacrament.\u00a0 She kneeled, held her little hands out (barely over the chancel rail) to take the wafer, and did exactly as she was told.\u00a0 She was still chewing when the Chalice came around, so we passed on the wine.\u00a0<em> I think I&#8217;ll continue to allow her to pass on that for a while.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was so proud and it was such a beautiful moment.\u00a0 What a miracle the Holy Communion is and what a miracle that Mary Clare is alive and well and able to celebrate Christ in this way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn&#8217;t get photos before, during or after church, but we were there for a Christmas party that evening, so I snapped a couple of quick photos of the girls in our beautiful church after the party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, December 20, 2009, Mary Clare participated in the Holy Eucharist!\u00a0 She has been asking for several months if she can take &#8220;munion&#8221; with us.\u00a0 We spoke to Father Michael about it and remembered that McCanless also had her first communion at 2 1\/2, on Father&#8217;s Day in 2006.\u00a0 He is a firm believer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}