{"id":108283,"date":"2021-12-30T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108283"},"modified":"2021-12-30T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T10:22:09","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-thomas-becket-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108283","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas Becket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God, our strength and our salvation, who didst call thy servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of thy people and a defender of thy Church: Keep thy household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors and leaders who are wise in the ways of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ the shepherd of our souls, 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\">29 Dec 1170: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Archbishop?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Archbishop<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canterbury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Canterbury<\/a> Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Becket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Becket<\/a> is murdered in Canterbury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cathedral?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cathedral<\/a> by four English knights. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/King?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#King<\/a> Henry II said, &quot;Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?&quot; Shortly after he was killed. He was born in 1117. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishHistory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BritishHistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Osu4kLIjY0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Osu4kLIjY0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9pYu1MKsiv\">pic.twitter.com\/9pYu1MKsiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Today In History (@URDailyHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/URDailyHistory\/status\/1476388572483624962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 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>O God, our strength and our salvation, who didst call thy servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of thy people and a defender of thy Church: Keep thy household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108283\">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":[186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283","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=108283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108313,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283\/revisions\/108313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}