{"id":108270,"date":"2021-12-29T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108270"},"modified":"2021-12-29T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T11:51:05","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-holy-innocents-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108270","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We remember this day, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by the order of King Herod. Receive, we beseech thee, into the arms of thy mercy all innocent victims; and by thy great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish thy rule of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. We meditate not only on the violence Herod perpetrated against the young children, but also how our own culture participates in violence against the weak. <\/p>\n<p>Lord, have mercy upon us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdEQiyBElN\">pic.twitter.com\/KdEQiyBElN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wesley Walker &#x1f56f; (@WesleyWalker4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesleyWalker4\/status\/1475812093945335817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We remember this day, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by the order of King Herod. Receive, we beseech thee, into the arms of thy mercy all innocent victims; and by thy great might frustrate the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108270\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,186,187,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108295,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108270\/revisions\/108295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}