{"id":123422,"date":"2023-10-03T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123422"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:47:43","slug":"archbishop-justin-welby-joins-pope-francis-blessing-thousands-at-ecumenical-prayer-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123422","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Justin Welby joins Pope Francis blessing thousands at ecumenical prayer vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury took part in a historic ecumenical prayer vigil, presided over by Pope Francis, in St Peter\u2019s Square on Saturday 30 September. Along with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, church leaders from different denominations were invited to join the Pope in prayer, entrusting the work of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vigil, the crowd shared in Taiz\u00e9-style music, prayer and hymns. The Archbishop lead the Lord\u2019s Prayer, and at the end of the vigil joined with all the Christian leaders present to collectively pray and bless the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The vigil was attended by thousands of people from across Christian denominations, including many young people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/news\/news-and-statements\/archbishop-joins-pope-francis-blessing-thousands-ecumenical-prayer-vigil\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqVLTtNeBs\">https:\/\/t.co\/bqVLTtNeBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Lamb (@ctrlamb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ctrlamb\/status\/1708858376896024592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2023<\/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>The Archbishop of Canterbury took part in a historic ecumenical prayer vigil, presided over by Pope Francis, in St Peter\u2019s Square on Saturday 30 September. Along with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, church leaders from different denominations were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123422\">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":[382,67,389,158,637,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123422","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=123422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123425,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123422\/revisions\/123425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}