{"id":15127,"date":"2014-07-25T07:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15127"},"modified":"2014-07-24T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T04:23:34","slug":"anniversary-of-my-ordination-as-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2014\/07\/25\/anniversary-of-my-ordination-as-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of my Ordination as Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Anniversary of my Ordination as Bishop of Tasmania on St James&#8217; Day, 25 July\u00a02000.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u00a0reflect on that humbling, joyful, overwhelming occasion I am reminded of\u00a0the St James The Apostle Day prayer (APBA page 616) and\u00a0the prayer&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing seeking of God&#8217;s strength for &#8216;self-denying service&#8217;. May the Holy Spirit empower this spirit of Christ within and through me. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O gracious God,<br \/>\nwhose apostle James left his father and all that he had,<br \/>\nand without delay obeyed the call of your Son Jesus Christ:<br \/>\npour out upon the leaders of your Church<br \/>\nthe same spirit of self-denying service<br \/>\nby which alone they may have true authority<br \/>\namong your people;<br \/>\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord,<br \/>\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\none God, now and for ever. <strong>Amen<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">See explanation of St James the Apostle, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/07\/25\/11-years-of-bishoping\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">11<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> Anniversary of Bishoping<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Anniversary of my Ordination as Bishop of Tasmania on St James&#8217; Day, 25 July\u00a02000. As I\u00a0reflect on that humbling, joyful, overwhelming occasion I am reminded of\u00a0the St James The Apostle Day prayer (APBA page 616) and\u00a0the prayer&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2014\/07\/25\/anniversary-of-my-ordination-as-bishop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15136,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}