{"id":13113,"date":"2009-06-01T15:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/miami_herald_father_cutie_gets_standing_ovation_at_his_first_sermon_at_new_\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:14:53","slug":"miami_herald_father_cutie_gets_standing_ovation_at_his_first_sermon_at_new_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13113","title":{"rendered":"Miami Herald: Father Cuti\u00c3\u00a9 gets standing ovation at his first sermon at new Episcopal church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his return to the pulpit Sunday, Rev. Alberto Cuti\u00c3\u00a9 tried to say hello to his new congregation.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>First came the standing ovation. Then, cheering. And the cameras, held high in the air, as though at a rock concert, capturing every moment. Inside the tiny Episcopal Church of the Resurrection of Biscayne Park, more than 300 people &#8212; more than three times the normal attendance &#8212; turned out to greet him for Sunday morning service.<\/p>\n<p>Cuti\u00c3\u00a9 looked out at the crowd and said, &#8220;I am humbled by your presence here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The priest nicknamed &#8221;Father Oprah&#8221; gave his first sermon since famously leaving the Roman Catholic Church after published photographs showed him nuzzling a woman on a Florida beach. Unlike in Catholicism, Episcopal priests can marry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/459\/story\/1074580.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his return to the pulpit Sunday, Rev. Alberto Cuti\u00c3\u00a9 tried to say hello to his new congregation. He couldn&#8217;t. First came the standing ovation. Then, cheering. And the cameras, held high in the air, as though at a rock<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13113\">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":[36,48,42,158,66,154,184,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113","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=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}