{"id":2943,"date":"2022-05-01T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:01:05","slug":"st-albans-daily-may-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"St. Alban&#8217;s Daily &#8211; May 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><\/tr><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/fe8ad10a-766e-495e-901c-2ac72f069582.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong>Sunday, May 1, 2022<\/strong><br><br><strong>3rd Sunday of Easter<\/strong><br><strong>Very good news! (Besides the Resurrection, I mean)<\/strong><br><strong>Ryan Williams<\/strong><br>We received a letter this week from Bishop Diane Bruce &#8211; which, because I was away I did not see until today, which reads:<br><br>Dear Ryan,<br>At the Standing Committee meeting on Sunday April 24, 2022, the members unanimously endorsed you as a Candidate for Holy Orders. This is an important step in the discernment process of your journey with the Lord, and I hereby confer upon you the status of Candidate for Priesthood.<br>I would ask you to familiarize yourself with the canons which specifically address the requirements and expectations of a Candidate.<br>May the Lord continue to bless your discernment and your preparation work.<br>Blessings,<br>The Rt. Rev. Diane M Jardine BruceBishop Provivional of West Missouri<br><br><br>This is actually a Very Big Deal and I know you will want to thank God, and to congratulate him! Cathy+<br><br>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/1f05e22d-da38-4856-b2d0-b1d516737f9a.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, MissouriSunday, May 1, 2022 3rd Sunday of EasterVery good news! (Besides the Resurrection, I mean)Ryan WilliamsWe received a letter this week from Bishop Diane Bruce &#8211; which, because I was away I did not see until today, which reads: Dear Ryan,At the Standing Committee meeting on Sunday April 24, 2022, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}