{"id":121553,"date":"2023-06-24T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121553"},"modified":"2023-06-24T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T12:37:40","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-nativity-of-john-the-baptist-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121553","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the Nativity of John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, by whose providence thy servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent according to his preaching; and after his example constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth&#8217;s sake; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, 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\">24 June is the feast of the Birth of John the Baptist. It&#39;s Midsummer Day, once the date of the solstice, which was carefully chosen symbolism: Christ&#39;s birth is celebrated at midwinter, as light begins to grow, and John at midsummer, as it begins to wane <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mAkGOhSnFd\">https:\/\/t.co\/mAkGOhSnFd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pM4P0U7Q4W\">pic.twitter.com\/pM4P0U7Q4W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/1672535302177533953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2023<\/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>Almighty God, by whose providence thy servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121553\">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":[186,187,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121553","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=121553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121555,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121553\/revisions\/121555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}