{"id":262,"date":"2006-09-03T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-11-26T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T02:55:06","slug":"serving-up-the-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Serving Up the Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly it dawned on me this morning during communion at church how odd it was that they only had appointed deacons serving communion to the congregation. I guess that this is a legacy of the Old Testament &#8216;High Priest as intercessor to God&#8217; thing.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest all they do is go to the end of the row so that it can be passed along &#8211; it&#8217;s not even as if they have some magical incantation to make as you receive the bread or the wine.<\/p>\n<p>Seems a shame to keep this tradition &#8211; which seems unnecessarily exclusive.<strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i-to-i.irexnet.com\/?the_last_seduction\">The Last Seduction full<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly it dawned on me this morning during communion at church how odd it was that they only had appointed deacons serving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}