{"id":115290,"date":"2022-09-21T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115290"},"modified":"2022-09-21T06:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:11:38","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-matthew-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115290","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We thank thee, heavenly Father, for the witness of thine apostle and evangelist Matthew to the Gospel of thy Son our Savior; and we pray that, after his example, we may with ready wills and hearts obey the calling of our Lord to follow him; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Calling of Saint Matthew (c.1625\u201330), by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metmuseum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metmuseum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deeply influenced by Caravaggio, Caracciolo shows the moment when Jesus asks Matthew, an avaricious tax collector, to renounce his worldly possessions and follow Him (Matthew 9:9)<\/p>\n<p>Image: OA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vL7RQ2N0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/6vL7RQ2N0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/1572466341583683584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 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>We thank thee, heavenly Father, for the witness of thine apostle and evangelist Matthew to the Gospel of thy Son our Savior; and we pray that, after his example, we may with ready wills and hearts obey the calling of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115290\">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-115290","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\/115290","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=115290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115304,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290\/revisions\/115304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}