{"id":4195,"date":"2011-07-24T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:48:27","slug":"fellowship-at-st-ethelwolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship at St Ethelwold&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11072405.jpg\" alt=\"St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nYou can tell from the thickness of the walls that St Ethelwold&#8217;s House is one of the oldest houses in Abingdon. The house has a Georgian front, with medieaval rooms stretching behind.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot going on at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100619224153\/http:\/\/www.ethelwoldhouse.org.uk:80\/index.htm\">St Ethelwold&#8217;s House<\/a> this weekend. Yesterday there was an open afternoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11072404.jpg\" alt=\"St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nI read in a leaflet called &#8220;<em>The Fellowship of St Ethelwold<\/em>&#8221; that\u00a0 Dorothea Pickering &#8211; the founder &#8211; hoped to create a small scale Benedictine Community at St Ethelwolds. Dorothea was interested in the history of Abingdon Abbey and named the house\u00a0 after St Ethelwold &#8211; a Benedictine monk who rebuilt and reinvigorated the Abbey in the tenth century.\u00a0 Nowadays, Bed and Breakfast, and the use of\u00a0 rooms for spiritual and community activities,\u00a0 ensure that St Ethelwold&#8217;s continues to flourish.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11072407.jpg\" alt=\"St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nAnother of Dorotheas interests was interfaith relationships and today &#8211;\u00a0 Sunday &#8211; there was a large interfaith gathering in the garden. People shared a picnic and were entertained first by a group of children singing and dancing&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11072401.jpg\" alt=\"St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nThen with some Bangladeshi music &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11072408.jpg\" alt=\"St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nThat reminds me, Duncan Brown, the ex Mayor, invited  followers of a number of different faiths to act as his Chaplain during the year he was Mayor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell from the thickness of the walls that St Ethelwold&#8217;s House is one of the oldest houses in Abingdon. The house has a Georgian front, with medieaval rooms stretching behind. There has been a lot going on at St Ethelwold&#8217;s House this weekend. Yesterday there was an open afternoon. I read in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}