{"id":28717,"date":"2011-10-12T03:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_washington_cardinal_confirms_members_of_former_episcopal_community\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T03:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T03:50:47","slug":"cns_washington_cardinal_confirms_members_of_former_episcopal_community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28717","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Washington cardinal confirms members of former Episcopal community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The church is the body of Christ, the beginning of the kingdom, the family of God, and the way to salvation,&#8221; the cardinal said in his homily. &#8220;Today, as part of your faith journey, you come to the church to complete your initiation into the body of Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heart of our communion, our bonding, our spiritual life, is this altar,&#8221; Cardinal Wuerl said, adding, &#8220;Today, we will invite everyone (here) to that table of the Lord, to receive that Communion that bonds us with Christ and with one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lewis, the former rector of the St. Luke community, who as an Episcopal priest shepherded his parishioners through the process of joining the Catholic Church, said after the Mass, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad to be home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/news\/2011\/10\/washington-cardinal-confirms-members-former-episcopal-community\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The church is the body of Christ, the beginning of the kingdom, the family of God, and the way to salvation,&#8221; the cardinal said in his homily. &#8220;Today, as part of your faith journey, you come to the church to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28717\">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":[36,42,66,154,364,376,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717","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=28717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}