{"id":19548,"date":"2013-06-08T13:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19548"},"modified":"2013-06-08T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:41:48","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-allows-entropy-to-have-its-way-with-st-hildas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-allows-entropy-to-have-its-way-with-st-hildas\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara allows entropy to have its way with St. Hilda\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When St. Hilda\u2019s congregation left the Diocese of Niagara in 2008, bishops Spence and Bird sent the congregation a letter saying, among other things: \u201cbe assured that we are prepared to keep the doors of this beautiful church open and will offer every support and pastoral care to those who choose to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, not only are the doors not open, but the church has been barricaded with concrete blocks large enough to serve as tank traps.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning after a friend passed the building, she phoned me to let me know that there were three police cars in the driveway along with another car containing someone bearing a strong resemblance to Dean Peter Wall. I suspect that either someone had broken in and was squatting \u2013 in which case the diocese would have nothing to complain of since it is <i>so<\/i> keen on Occupy \u2013 or there had been an act of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>The back door does have some new decoration:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19549\" alt=\"_29U3837\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3837.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t decide whether the symbol represents something satanic or is a new diocesan emblem.<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of the property weeds have taken over what used to be attractive gardens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19550\" alt=\"_29U3838\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3838.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just as well the church sign is still announcing who is responsible for the empty, disintegrating, graffiti besmirched shell:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19551\" alt=\"_29U3841\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3841.jpg\" width=\"413\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the inviting concrete blocks in all their inclusive splendour:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19552\" alt=\"_29U3839\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/29U3839.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When St. Hilda\u2019s congregation left the Diocese of Niagara in 2008, bishops Spence and Bird sent the congregation a letter saying, among other things: \u201cbe assured that we are prepared to keep the doors of this beautiful church open and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-allows-entropy-to-have-its-way-with-st-hildas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,2257],"class_list":["post-19548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-st-hildas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}