{"id":134634,"date":"2025-02-03T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134634"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:46:25","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-anskar-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134634","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Anskar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty and everlasting God, who didst send thy servant Anskar as an apostle to the people of Scandinavia, and dist enable him to lay a firm foundation for their conversion, though he did not see the results of his labors: Keep thy Church from discouragement in the day of small things, knowing that when thou hast begun a good work thou wilt bring it to a faithful conclusion; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anskar, also known as Ansgar, which means \u201cGod&#39;s Spear,\u201d is known as the Apostle to the Scandinavians and as the Apostle of the North. Anskar was the first Archbishop of Bremen and is the patron saint of Denmark. He died Feb. 3, 865. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9h8KuQy3kD\">pic.twitter.com\/9h8KuQy3kD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Saint Barnabas Anglican Church (@Barnabas_FW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barnabas_FW\/status\/1886391692036624856?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>Almighty and everlasting God, who didst send thy servant Anskar as an apostle to the people of Scandinavia, and dist enable him to lay a firm foundation for their conversion, though he did not see the results of his labors:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134634\">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":[186,451,188,452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-denmark","category-spiritualityprayer","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134634","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=134634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134636,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134634\/revisions\/134636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}