{"id":122436,"date":"2023-07-29T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122436"},"modified":"2023-07-29T07:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:10:55","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-mary-and-martha-of-bethany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122436","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\">29 July: the feast of St. Martha of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bethany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bethany<\/a> &#8211; whose name, as one synonymous with housekeeping, has been revived in Margaret Atwood&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HandmaidsTale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HandmaidsTale<\/a> &#8211; here she is with St Mary and Christ by Vermeer c. 1654-6, his only known biblical painting (National Galleries of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Scotland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Scotland<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nnPQRApCX5\">pic.twitter.com\/nnPQRApCX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1155744284907311104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2019<\/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=122436\">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":[186,188,169,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology-scripture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122436","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=122436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122438,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122436\/revisions\/122438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}