{"id":26900,"date":"2019-03-27T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:51:29","slug":"butterflies-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/butterflies-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies and babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first Sunday in May many ANiC churches will be celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicannetwork.ca\/events-posts\/2018\/5\/6\/sanctity-of-life-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sanctity of life Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a diocese which affirms the sanctity of life we are encouraging all our parishes to make a special effort on <strong>Sunday May 6th<\/strong> <em>(this was from last year)<\/em> to affirm that life is a gift from God; gift from start to finish.\u00a0This could take many forms in worship, prayer and teaching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Diocese of Niagara, on the other hand, has <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraanglican.news\/2019\/03\/25\/celebrate-earth-sunday-choice-of-two-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earth Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26901\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103-436x300.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-27_154103.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>As spring is with us, Creation Matters Working Group, a National Church group, encourages your parish to prepare to celebrate Earth Sunday, either on Easter Day\u2009\u2014\u2009April 21\u2009\u2014\u2009or the following Sunday, April 28.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>And for a small creature \u2014\u2009the plight of the monarch butterfly seems to have motivated so many people to plant milkweeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like butterflies as much as the next Anglican but to focus one\u2019s effort on the plight of butterflies while ignoring that of tens of thousands of aborted babies seems to be straining out a gnat \u2013 or a monarch &#8211; while swallowing a camel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first Sunday in May many ANiC churches will be celebrating sanctity of life Sunday: As a diocese which affirms the sanctity of life we are encouraging all our parishes to make a special effort on Sunday May 6th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/butterflies-and-babies\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2022,2121,2579],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-abortion","tag-earth-day","tag-sanctity-of-life-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","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=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}