{"id":15653,"date":"2015-07-25T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15653"},"modified":"2015-07-25T20:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T09:03:14","slug":"15th-anniversary-ordination-as-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/07\/25\/15th-anniversary-ordination-as-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"15th Anniversary Ordination as Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Anniversary of my Ordination as Bishop of Tasmania on St James\u2019 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\u2019s\u00a0ongoing seeking of God\u2019s strength for \u2018self-denying service\u2019. 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>See explanation of St James the Apostle, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/07\/25\/11-years-of-bishoping\/\">11<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of Bishoping<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Anniversary of my Ordination as Bishop of Tasmania on St James\u2019 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\u2019s\u00a0ongoing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/07\/25\/15th-anniversary-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\/15653"}],"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=15653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15672,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}