{"id":36568,"date":"2013-01-03T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/parishioners_friends_say_farewell_to_st-_georges_spesutia_oldest_episcopal_\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:21:11","slug":"parishioners_friends_say_farewell_to_st-_georges_spesutia_oldest_episcopal_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36568","title":{"rendered":"Parishioners, friends say farewell to St. George&#39;s Spesutia, Oldest Episcopal church in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parishioners at St. George&#8217;s Spesutia Church were not celebrating Christmas on Sunday morning, the Rev. Bill Smith told them amid poinsettias and holiday decorations, but rather The Incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tell it over and over and over again for one reason: so we can become part of the story,&#8221; he said about the tale of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>But for those gathered at the Perryman church, the oldest Episcopal parish in Maryland, Sunday&#8217;s service was the end of one part of their story.<\/p>\n<p>The Eucharist service is expected to be the last one to be held at St. George&#8217;s, after The Right Rev. Eugene Sutton, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, ordered an end to the parish&#8217;s services earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/explore\/harford\/publications\/the-aegis\/ph-ag-st-georges-0102-20121230,0,6640493.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parishioners at St. George&#8217;s Spesutia Church were not celebrating Christmas on Sunday morning, the Rev. Bill Smith told them amid poinsettias and holiday decorations, but rather The Incarnation. &#8220;We tell it over and over and over again for one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36568\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568","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=36568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}