{"id":48892,"date":"2015-03-17T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_saint_patricks_day_sermon_preached_by_bishop_paul_colton_bishop_of_cork\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:00:15","slug":"the_saint_patricks_day_sermon_preached_by_bishop_paul_colton_bishop_of_cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48892","title":{"rendered":"The Saint Patrick\u2019s Day Sermon preached by Bishop Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday one hundred years ago \u201d\u201c 16th March, 1915 \u201d\u201c John Crowther, from the South Douglas Road in Cork, set off to France.  The October before  \u201d\u201c on 29th to be precise \u201d\u201c he had volunteered for service.  By 9th May he was in the middle of the fighting.  First he was reported missing, then \u201d\u02dcreported killed.\u2019  That\u2019s all the newspaper report says: no date is given.  Nothing more:  gone!<\/p>\n<p>The photograph \u201d\u201c from the newspaper, grubby now in the 100 years that have passed, shows still a youthful, fresh face \u201d\u201c like any of the lads you\u2019d see these days heading along that same South Douglas Road in Cork to school, to meet their friends, or to their sports club.<\/p>\n<p>Putting faces to the names carved in stone memorials around our county has been driving our WWI memorial project here at St Fin Barre\u2019s and soon the emerging work will be on display.<\/p>\n<p>Back to my point: Putting faces on human situations is crucial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchofirelandcork.com\/2015\/03\/17\/saint-patricks-day-sermon-preached-by-bishop-paul-colton-bishop-of-cork\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday one hundred years ago \u201d\u201c 16th March, 1915 \u201d\u201c John Crowther, from the South Douglas Road in Cork, set off to France. The October before \u201d\u201c on 29th to be precise \u201d\u201c he had volunteered for service. By 9th<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48892\">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":[36,48,74,409,435,184,439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48892","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=48892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}