{"id":117577,"date":"2022-12-26T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117577"},"modified":"2022-12-26T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:44:03","slug":"a-prayer-for-saint-stephen-day-from-the-1662-bcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117577","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Saint Stephen&#8217;s Day from the 1662 BCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first martyr, Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee, our only mediator and advocate. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today the Church of England celebrates Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qA6uIQ6qEx\">https:\/\/t.co\/qA6uIQ6qEx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: &#39;Devout Men Taking the Body of Saint Stephen&#39;, commissioned 1776 for St Stephen Walbrook by its Rector, Revd Thomas Wilson, &amp; now on display in Boston, MA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ixqFZUVg2b\">https:\/\/t.co\/ixqFZUVg2b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zM5UiaQlae\">pic.twitter.com\/zM5UiaQlae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/1607270457450921985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 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>Grant, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117577\">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":[186,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117577","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=117577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117585,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117577\/revisions\/117585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}