{"id":115245,"date":"2022-09-19T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115245"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:38:27","slug":"the-archbishop-of-canterburys-sermon-for-the-state-funeral-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115245","title":{"rendered":"The Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Sermon for The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the balm of your healing love. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God \u2013 famous or obscure, respected or ignored \u2013 is that death is the door to glory.<\/p>\n<p>Her Late Majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the Nation and Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely has such a promise been so well kept! Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus \u2013 who in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow, but who to follow \u2013 said: \u201cI am the way, the truth and the life\u201d. Her Late Majesty\u2019s example was not set through her position or her ambition, but through whom she followed. I know His Majesty shares the same faith and hope in Jesus Christ as his mother; the same sense of service and duty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/speaking-writing\/sermons\/archbishop-canterburys-sermon-state-funeral-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farewell Your Majesty <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateFuneral?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StateFuneral<\/a>. &#x1f4f7; credit: A.Edmondson\/Jobson Media <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3O9ooSfaya\">pic.twitter.com\/3O9ooSfaya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Jobson (@theroyaleditor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theroyaleditor\/status\/1571721568681852929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the balm of your healing love. Amen. The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God \u2013 famous or obscure, respected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115245\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,67,438,199,439,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115248,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245\/revisions\/115248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}