{"id":133314,"date":"2024-12-10T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133314"},"modified":"2024-12-10T06:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:43:36","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-thomas-merton-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133314","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas Merton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gracious God, who didst call thy monk Thomas Merton to proclaim thy justice out of silence, and moved him in his contemplative writings to perceive and value Christ at work in the faiths of others: Keep us, like him, steadfast in the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Love is not something that happens to you. It is a certain special way of being alive.<br><br>Thomas Merton <br>born <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> 1915 in Prades, France. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPR1gTCAiP\">pic.twitter.com\/CPR1gTCAiP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joyce (@joycebudenberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joycebudenberg\/status\/1488100374078623750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracious God, who didst call thy monk Thomas Merton to proclaim thy justice out of silence, and moved him in his contemplative writings to perceive and value Christ at work in the faiths of others: Keep us, like him, steadfast<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133314\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133314","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=133314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133318,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133314\/revisions\/133318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}