{"id":134629,"date":"2025-02-03T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134629"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:40:33","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-four-dorchester-chaplains-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134629","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the [four] Dorchester chaplains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Holy God, who didst inspire the Dorchester chaplains to be models of steadfast sacrificial love in a tragic and terrifying time: Help us to follow their example, that their courageous ministry may inspire chaplains and all who serve, to recognize thy presence in the midst of peril; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 Feb 1943, while in convoy SG 19 from New York to Greenland, SS Dorchester, coastal passenger steamship operating as a troop ship torpedoed &amp; sunk by U-223. 674 of 904 on board died. Four Army chaplains all gave away their life jackets to save others before they died. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OjWoLgKSPR\">pic.twitter.com\/OjWoLgKSPR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Revd Nicholas Pye (@RevdPye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevdPye\/status\/1886331601614692654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy God, who didst inspire the Dorchester chaplains to be models of steadfast sacrificial love in a tragic and terrifying time: Help us to follow their example, that their courageous ministry may inspire chaplains and all who serve, to recognize<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134629\">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":[186,438,106,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-military-armed-forces","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134629","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=134629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134631,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134629\/revisions\/134631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}