{"id":13801,"date":"2009-07-09T03:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_niagara_rite_of_blessing_of_civil_marriage\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T03:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:15:40","slug":"the_niagara_rite_of_blessing_of_civil_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13801","title":{"rendered":"The Niagara Rite of Blessing of Civil Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Rite is intended for the voluntary use of priests who wish to offer a sacrament of blessing regardless of the gender of the civilly married persons who wish to receive the blessing of the church and wish to affirm their life commitment to each other before God in the community of the church.<\/p>\n<p>As such it does not imply nor is it intended to suggest that those who do or do not make use of this rite are excluded from the economy of God\u2019s salvation.  The rite is a means for the church to extend affirmation, support, and commitment to those who present themselves seeking a sign of God\u2019s love in response to the love and commitment they express for each other and have already affirmed in a civil ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/Niagara_Rite\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Rite is intended for the voluntary use of priests who wish to offer a sacrament of blessing regardless of the gender of the civilly married persons who wish to receive the blessing of the church and wish to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13801\">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":[36,39,576,388,74,98,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-marriage-family","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","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=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}