{"id":125670,"date":"2023-12-29T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125670"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:14:07","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-thomas-becket-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125670","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas Becket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God, our strength and our salvation, who didst call thy servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of thy people and a defender of thy Church: Keep thy household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors and leaders who are wise in the ways of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ the shepherd of our souls, 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\">On this day in 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered at the Cathedral by four knights, sent by King Henry II.<\/p>\n<p>Join us this evening at 5.30pm, for our Memorial Service for the Martyrdom of St Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b15uXb0PaF\">https:\/\/t.co\/b15uXb0PaF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5PRsaIa5U7\">pic.twitter.com\/5PRsaIa5U7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canterbury Cathedral (@CburyCathedral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CburyCathedral\/status\/1740689187148312961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 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>O God, our strength and our salvation, who didst call thy servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of thy people and a defender of thy Church: Keep thy household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125670\">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":[67,186,324,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125670","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=125670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125672,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125670\/revisions\/125672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}