{"id":137588,"date":"2025-06-06T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137588"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:29:17","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-ini-kopuria-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137588","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Ini Kopuria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Loving God, may thy Name be blest for the witness of Ini Kopuria, police officer and founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, whose members saved many American pilots in a time of war, and who continue to minister courageously to the islanders of Melanesia. Open our eyes that we, with these Anglican brothers, may establish peace and hope in service to others, for the sake of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today the Church of England commemorates Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/eZpNoUKVHy\">pic.twitter.com\/eZpNoUKVHy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/607075358056321025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving God, may thy Name be blest for the witness of Ini Kopuria, police officer and founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, whose members saved many American pilots in a time of war, and who continue to minister courageously to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137588\">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":[397,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-melanesia","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137588","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=137588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137593,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137588\/revisions\/137593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}