{"id":4130,"date":"2017-11-04T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2017-11-04T04:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:05:19","slug":"the-church-of-the-quill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-church-of-the-quill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church Of The Quill"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Glendalough<\/a>
Glendalough in Wicklow from a trip in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nIm not a great one for churches, unless visiting ruined ones! But I worship God in my own way… another of the restored poems to the site, this I think is from 1998 or so!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I, the sinner, in church I am not seen
\nBecause Im not missed, Im never asked where I\u2019ve been
\nFor I, few times my face in church has shown
\nAnd so, by those ho frequent it are not known.
\nBy those to whom I\u2019m unknown I’m not missed
\nAnd to be known to them I resist
\nBut do I than them, love God less?
\nAnd does he, them more than me bless?
\nI who formal prayers rarely say
\nI worship God: through stanzas of faith I pray
\nI worship in verse and to do so I will
\nPrar to God in the Church of the Quill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Im not a great one for churches, unless visiting ruined ones! But I worship God in my own way… another of the restored poems to the site, this I think is from 1998 or so! I, the sinner, in church I am not seen Because Im not missed, Im never …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3582,64],"tags":[1630,1648,524,3979,65,3978,2804,3975,527,3977,2072,440,712,3976],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-inspirational-poetry","tag-catholic","tag-church","tag-faith","tag-glendalough","tag-life-2","tag-mass","tag-pilgrimage","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-prayerlife","tag-reflection","tag-walk","tag-wicklow","tag-work-as-prayer","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-14C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3238,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/worshiping-god-among-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":4130,"position":0},"title":"Worshiping God Among Nature","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We know of the mass rocks where Irish Catholics met to worship in Cromwellian and Penal times to avoid arrest or murder of the preist, but so it was in Holland for Protestants too under Spanish rule, where they met in the open in secret places to aviud been killed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"carraig an afrainn\"","block_context":{"text":"carraig an afrainn","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tag\/carraig-an-afrainn\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Priestless Church - where illegal Protestant services held in Holland under Spanish rule akin to the Catholic Mass rocks of Ireland","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Priestless-Church-where-illegal-Protestant-services-held-in-Holland-under-Spanish-rule-akin-to-the-Catholic-Mass-rocks-of-Ireland.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2039,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/torn-down-rebuilt-as-all-must-be\/","url_meta":{"origin":4130,"position":1},"title":"Torn Down, Rebuilt, As All Must Be","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Longford's St. Mel's Cathedral burned down one Christmas morning. 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