{"id":22474,"date":"2020-03-18T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22474"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:45:27","slug":"updated-directives-31820-complete-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?p=22474","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED DIRECTIVES 3\/18\/20- COMPLETE DETAILS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Diocese of Grand Rapids has temporarily suspended\u00a0<\/b><b>ALL public Masses and all other liturgical and devotional services, effective immediately, through Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020.<\/b> With this suspension, all Catholics within the territory of the Diocese of Grand Rapids are granted a dispensation from their obligation of attending Sunday Mass through April 5.<\/p>\n<p><b>For Holy Family Parish this means:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Weekend or Daily Masses, no Word &amp; Communion Service or Funerals\u2014the church will remain open for personal prayer during Mass and business hours. No communion will be distributed during this prayer time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No devotions: including Adoration, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Bible Study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No meetings, classes or gatherings: Including all Council, Commission, and Committee meetings, Religious Education classes, Fish Fry\u2019s,\u00a0 Lenten Study on \u201cThe Mass\u201d, Choir rehearsal, Book Club, Sandwich Ministry, Cursillo Reunion\/Leader Mtgs Knitting Group, Al-Anon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>All <\/i>Parish events are canceled<\/p>\n<h2>Helpful Links &amp; Resources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A7fc80705-0042-443d-8e73-ad630d5e5905\" target=\"_blank\">Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to parishes in the Grand Rapids\u00a0Diocese!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A03390078-fbcc-4d99-8e46-f441041e8e34\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop Walkowiak&#8217;s Letter to all the Faithful of the Diocese- A Shepherd&#8217;s\u00a0Letter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grdiocese.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diocesan Website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/grdiocese.org\/diocese\/televised-mass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Televised Mass<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2020-03\/pope-francis-prayer-our-lady-protection-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis&#8217; Prayer to the Blessed Mother for Protection<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ad5672251-973f-4e22-ab33-f69ebc528edc\" target=\"_blank\">Litany to St. Joseph &#8211; Head of the Holy Family (Feast Day March 19)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In these quickly changing times, we will continually post updates to our website &amp; Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Grand Rapids has temporarily suspended\u00a0ALL public Masses and all other liturgical and devotional services, effective immediately, through Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020. With this suspension, all Catholics within the territory of the Diocese of Grand Rapids are granted a dispensation from their obligation of attending Sunday Mass through April 5. For Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22484,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}