{"id":108621,"date":"2022-01-11T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108621"},"modified":"2022-01-11T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:25:16","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-henry-alford-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108621","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to begin the day from Henry Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Blessed Lord, who in the days of thy earthly childhood didst earnestly desire to be about thy Father\u2019s business: Give us the grace of thy Holy Spirit early to seek thee and evermore to follow thee; that being continuously aided by thy grace, we may be exercised in thy service; who livest and reignest with the Holy Spirit, world without end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The word \u2018epiphany\u2019 means \u2018manifestation\u2019 or \u2018appearance\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Feast of the Epiphany traditionally falls 12 days after Christmas Day, and marks the visit of the Magi.<\/p>\n<p>During Epiphany, Jesus is revealed as the Saviour of the world, who calls us to follow him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P11gnjJkbD\">pic.twitter.com\/P11gnjJkbD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Church of England (@churchofengland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland\/status\/1479070256081612804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/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 Blessed Lord, who in the days of thy earthly childhood didst earnestly desire to be about thy Father\u2019s business: Give us the grace of thy Holy Spirit early to seek thee and evermore to follow thee; that being continuously<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108621\">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":[568,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epiphany","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108621","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=108621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108632,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108621\/revisions\/108632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}