{"id":114204,"date":"2022-07-29T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114204"},"modified":"2022-07-29T05:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:21:49","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-mary-and-martha-of-bethany-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114204","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Mary and Martha of Bethany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God, heavenly Father, whose Son Jesus Christ enjoyed rest and refreshment in the home of Mary and Martha of Bethany: Give us the will to love thee, open our hearts to hear thee, and strengthen our hands to serve thee in others for his sake; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sts. Mary, Martha &amp; Lazarus lived in Bethany, outside of Jerusalem. Mary and Martha called on Jesus when Lazarus died &amp; Jesus raised him from the dead. They are the patron saints of siblings.<br \/>(Image\/Andrewrabbot\/Wikimedia Commons: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXBLhli3MN\">https:\/\/t.co\/MXBLhli3MN<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbO7MnFVAD\">pic.twitter.com\/pbO7MnFVAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diocese of Richmond (@RichmondDiocese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichmondDiocese\/status\/1420725806725222406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 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, heavenly Father, whose Son Jesus Christ enjoyed rest and refreshment in the home of Mary and Martha of Bethany: Give us the will to love thee, open our hearts to hear thee, and strengthen our hands to serve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114204\">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-114204","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\/114204","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=114204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114240,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114204\/revisions\/114240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}