{"id":16823,"date":"2020-12-16T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16823"},"modified":"2020-12-16T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:01:56","slug":"communion-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2020\/12\/communion-by-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Communion by Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes you are very thankful that Anglican orders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.papalencyclicals.net\/leo13\/l13curae.htm\">are null and void<\/a>.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/18-december\/news\/uk\/communion-by-mail-pushes-the-envelope-too-far-says-bishop\">\u201cHoly Communion by mail pushes the envelope too far, says Bishop\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next thing you know they will send out all Communion by mail. It would be the \u201call mail\u201d priesthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cpushing the envelope\u201d was a nice touch by the headline writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of those stories you read and then check to make sure it isn\u2019t a satire site, and then double-check that it isn\u2019t. The letter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/18-december\/comment\/opinion\/consecrated-bread-should-not-be-posted-to-communicants\"> was written by an Anglican Bishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Caveat: True for the most part, except those rare situations where they have been ordained by someone with valid orders.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you are very thankful that Anglican orders are null and void.* \u201cHoly Communion by mail pushes the envelope too far, says Bishop\u201d Next thing you know they will send&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16825,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions\/16825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}