{"id":134286,"date":"2025-01-20T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134286"},"modified":"2025-01-20T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:46:40","slug":"a-collect-for-the-feast-of-saint-sebastian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134286","title":{"rendered":"A Collect for the Feast of Saint Sebastian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Gracious Father, fill us with that spirit of courage which gave your martyr Sebastian strength to offer his life in faithful witness. Help us to learn from him to cherish your law and to obey you rather than men. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen (<i>slightly edited; KSH<\/i>).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/3 St Sebastian by Ninian Comper, 1912 at Langham, Rutland. Today&#8217;s the feast of St Sebastian. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9wQqofyPVr\">pic.twitter.com\/9wQqofyPVr<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/1881282855059468708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracious Father, fill us with that spirit of courage which gave your martyr Sebastian strength to offer his life in faithful witness. Help us to learn from him to cherish your law and to obey you rather than men. We<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134286\">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":[186,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134286","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=134286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134289,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134286\/revisions\/134289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}