{"id":1655,"date":"2016-02-11T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/come-its-time-to-worship-god\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:42:43","slug":"come-its-time-to-worship-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/come-its-time-to-worship-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Come, It\u2019s Time to Worship God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One of the primary functions of our &#8220;100 plus&#8221; foot Bell Tower is to signal our Community that it is time to gather together and worship the Lord.\u00a0 We are part of a centuries old stream of Church tradition, calling the people of God to worship with the tolling of bells.\u00a0 It is appropriate that the steady rhythm of our daily offices should be summoned by the steady tolling of a bell.\u00a0 Fifteen minutes before each service of Midday and Vespers offices (Evensong on Saturdays), a single bell is tolled 40 times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is said this tradition began in Monastic houses in the early centuries of Christianity, St. Martin of Tours perhaps being the first to build a tower with large bells, like our own, in the 4th century.\u00a0 As we grow with our own bells, I feel certain our commitment to this time-honored practice will root us more firmly in our calling to the worship of God.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/tower2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/tower2.jpg\" alt=\"tower2\" width=\"292\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/FMGgWkboxeY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary functions of our &#8220;100 plus&#8221; foot Bell Tower is to signal our Community that it is time to gather together and worship the Lord.\u00a0 We are part of a centuries old stream of Church tradition, calling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/come-its-time-to-worship-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}