{"id":25111,"date":"2011-03-16T02:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_makes_rallying_call_after_parish_vicar_defects\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T02:05:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:05:03","slug":"bishop_makes_rallying_call_after_parish_vicar_defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25111","title":{"rendered":"Bishop makes rallying call after parish vicar defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parish shaken by the departure of its vicar following his defection to the Catholic Church has been told to rally round and pray by the Bishop of Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p>Parishioners filing into the Parish Church of St Mary The Virgin in St Marychurch were visited by the Right Rev Canon John Ford&#8230;a week after vicar David Lashbrooke told his congregation he was unhappy with the way the Anglican Church was going and he had decided to convert to the Catholic faith, taking part of the congregation with him.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop John, who conducted the parish mass on Sunday, told the congregation that despite the &#8216;hurt, incomprehension, and shifting plates of the Church&#8217;, it was best to &#8216;pray and reflect&#8217; rather than become angry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk\/news\/Bishop-makes-rallying-parish-vicar-defects\/article-3328143-detail\/article.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parish shaken by the departure of its vicar following his defection to the Catholic Church has been told to rally round and pray by the Bishop of Plymouth. Parishioners filing into the Parish Church of St Mary The Virgin<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25111\">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":[36,48,42,74,389,635,435,154,184,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111","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=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}