{"id":125693,"date":"2023-12-30T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125693"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:42:49","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-prayers-for-the-christian-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125693","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Christmas from Prayers for the Christian Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hast given us this season of holy joy: We bow before thee with adoring reverence and lift up our hearts with thankful praise.  Fill us, we beseech thee, with the gladness of thy great redemption, and enable us to join in the angels\u2019 song, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men; through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<b>Prayers for the Christian Year<\/b> (SCM, 1964)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Adoration of the Shepherds<br \/>by Francisco de Zurbaran <br \/>1609<br \/>Grenoble, mus\u00e9e de Grenoble<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/art?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#history<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5e3e5jgs8\">pic.twitter.com\/j5e3e5jgs8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Art and History in Pictures (@visual_histroy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visual_histroy\/status\/1189860323832012801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 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>Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hast given us this season of holy joy: We bow before thee with adoring reverence and lift up our hearts with thankful praise. Fill us, we beseech thee, with the gladness of thy great<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125693\">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":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125693","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=125693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125699,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125693\/revisions\/125699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}