{"id":22574,"date":"2020-03-24T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:02:57","slug":"32420-updates-for-holy-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?p=22574","title":{"rendered":"3\/24\/20 UPDATES for Holy Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(LATEST UPDATES ARE IN RED)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0Following the Governor&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/whitmer\/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-522626--,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a><\/span>\u00a0requiring Michiganders to stay home, outside of critical functions, for the next three weeks,<\/span> the Diocese of Grand Rapids has temporarily suspended ALL public Masses and all other liturgical and devotional services, effective immediately, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">through Easter Monday, April 13, 2020<\/span>. With this suspension, all Catholics within the territory of the Diocese of Grand Rapids are granted a dispensation from their obligation of attending <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday Mass through April 12.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Holy Family existing &amp; <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">updated<\/span> <\/strong>directives:<\/div>\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. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Blessed Palms will be available on a table in the Narthex on April 4\/5 (pending supplier&#8217;s capabilities)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Parish Offices are closed until Tuesday, April 14. If you wish to drop off your contribution envelope during business hours, please slip it under the interior parish office door. If mailing, be assured our mail will be checked daily, and deposits made in a timely manner. Thank you for your continued support of the parish during this critical time!<\/span><\/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,\u00a0Lenten Study on \u201cThe Mass\u201d, Choir rehearsal, Book Club, Sandwich Ministry, Cursillo Reunion\/Leader Mtgs, Knitting Group, Al-Anon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(LATEST UPDATES ARE IN RED) \u00a0Following the Governor&#8217;s executive order\u00a0requiring Michiganders to stay home, outside of critical functions, for the next three weeks, the Diocese of Grand Rapids has temporarily suspended ALL public Masses and all other liturgical and devotional services, effective immediately, through Easter Monday, April 13, 2020. With this suspension, all Catholics within [&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\/22574"}],"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=22574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22584,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}