{"id":71210,"date":"2021-04-17T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/national-minutes-silence-at-3pm-for-prince-philip\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:48:00","slug":"national-minutes-silence-at-3pm-for-prince-philip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/national-minutes-silence-at-3pm-for-prince-philip\/","title":{"rendered":"National minute&#8217;s silence at 3pm for Prince Philip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The funeral of His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, takes place today [Saturday 17 April] at St George&#8217;s Chapel, Windsor Castle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The service will start after a national minute&#8217;s silence at 3pm, and it will be conducted by the Dean of Windsor, with the Archbishop of Canterbury pronouncing the blessing.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, died at Windsor Castle on Friday 9 April at the age of 99.<\/p>\n<p>After the Duke&#8217;s passing, The Most Rev Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, sent a message of condolence to Her Majesty The Queen, on behalf of the Church, and a\u00a0Prayer of Commemoration was offered on behalf of the Liturgy Committee:<\/p>\n<p><em>Gracious God, giver of all life,<br \/>\nin whom our earthly course finds its fulfilment:<br \/>\nwe give you thanks for the life of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,<br \/>\nfor his service to this nation, the Commonwealth, and humanity,<br \/>\nin war and in peace,<br \/>\nin the pursuit of knowledge,<br \/>\nand in his example of reverence for your creation.<br \/>\nWe give thanks for the encouragement he offered to the young,<br \/>\nand for his faithful support for Elizabeth our Queen.<br \/>\nWe pray that, as you receive him into your presence,<br \/>\nhis family and all who mourn may know your comfort<br \/>\nin the assurance that death is swallowed up in victory<br \/>\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\none God,<br \/>\nnow and in eternity.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Photograph of Prince Philip Copyright \u00a9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/FDmjCYMnNIQlnh0pd5L?domain=flickr.com\/\">Steve Punter<\/a>,\u00a0licensed under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/YxCkCZWoNuEgksj8q96?domain=en.wikipedia.org\">Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/OHgAC19nPi1GPup_ydT?domain=creativecommons.org\">Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic<\/a>\u00a0license.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral of His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, takes place today [Saturday 17 April] at St George&#8217;s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The service will start after a national minute&#8217;s silence at 3pm, and it will be conducted by the Dean of Windsor, with the Archbishop of Canterbury pronouncing the blessing. The Duke of Edinburgh, husband [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}