{"id":1467,"date":"2022-09-19T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T02:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T02:49:32","slug":"thanks-to-hindu-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Hindu community!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-1024x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-1024x403.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-1536x605.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-2048x806.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JIM02763-500x197.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>One Spirit: Celebrating our Faiths Together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The jointly organized event at the Hindu temple on Saturday, 17 Sept. 2022, <em>One Spirit: Celebrating our Faiths Together<\/em>, was a wonderful experience \u2013 interesting, uplifting and full of happy faces! Around 55 attended (some missing from this photo). <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/xfHpGCEVVuhf177CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As VMS Hindu board member Shrikant Shenwai said in his introduction, it was like the gathering of a beautiful bouquet, there was such beauty and diversity. Elder May Sam offered a blessing, saying it was especially good to see the children, since in Indigenous culture the children are like flowers, and this was a precious addition to the bouquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were artistic, devotional offerings of prayer, song, music, chant, and dance, presented by people from 6 different traditions in turn. A wonderful communal meal followed in the main hall, provided by the Hindu community assisted by multifaith volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warm thanks to the Hindu community, MC Lesia Kohut, Shrikant Shenwai, the generous volunteers and all the enthusiastic participants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jointly organized event at the Hindu temple on Saturday, 17 Sept. 2022, One Spirit: Celebrating our Faiths Together, was a wonderful experience \u2013 interesting, uplifting and full of happy faces! Around 55 attended (some missing from this photo). See &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}