{"id":46910,"date":"2014-11-17T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mass-_live_st-_marys_episcopal_church_in_western_massachusetts_to_close\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:00:27","slug":"mass-_live_st-_marys_episcopal_church_in_western_massachusetts_to_close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46910","title":{"rendered":"(Mass. Live) St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church in Western Massachusetts to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary&#8217;s Episcopal Church, on Main Street in the Thorndike section, is set to close Dec. 7., with the 125-seat church building possibly being put up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, based on dwindling resources, was made by the Rte. Rev. Douglas J. Fisher, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, in conjunction with the diocesan council.<\/p>\n<p>According to diocesan spokesman, Steve Abdow, canon for mission resources, attendance at Sunday service was averaging about 18 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hoping to connect them with other churches, Abdow said. &#8220;There are Episcopal churches in every direction, though not right within town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/11\/st_marys_episcopal_church_thorndike_to_close.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary&#8217;s Episcopal Church, on Main Street in the Thorndike section, is set to close Dec. 7., with the 125-seat church building possibly being put up for sale. The decision, based on dwindling resources, was made by the Rte. Rev.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46910\">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":[36,48,39,50,209,66,184,108,372,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46910","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=46910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}