{"id":44495,"date":"2014-06-08T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mark_lawrence_ordains_young_son_following_him_into_priesthood\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:00:49","slug":"bishop_mark_lawrence_ordains_young_son_following_him_into_priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44495","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Bishop Mark Lawrence ordains young son following him into priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a moment while Bishop Mark Lawrence was ordaining his younger son recently when Joseph kneeled as the bishop stood above him in prayer, just before the laying on of hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My arms lifted above him invoking the Holy Spirit, and it seemed the spirit &#8211; like the murmuring of a dove&#8217;s wings &#8211; hovered there above and between us,&#8221; recalls the bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The moment felt more like a father with a son than a bishop with an upcoming priest, although he was there as both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140608\/PC1204\/140609440\/1015\/bishop-ordains-son-following-him-into-priesthood\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a moment while Bishop Mark Lawrence was ordaining his younger son recently when Joseph kneeled as the bishop stood above him in prayer, just before the laying on of hands. &#8220;My arms lifted above him invoking the Holy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44495\">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":[36,48,39,54,101,98,435,184,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-children","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","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=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}