{"id":134719,"date":"2025-02-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134719"},"modified":"2025-02-06T04:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:41:25","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-martyrs-of-japan-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134719","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the Martyrs of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God our Father, who art the source of strength to all thy saints, and who didst bring the holy martyrs of Japan through the suffering of the cross to the joys of life eternal: Grant that we, being encouraged by their example, may hold fast the faith that we profess, even unto death; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martyrdom of 23 Franciscan friars in Nagasaki <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/otd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#otd<\/a> 5 February 1597, this image probably made for their beatification in 1627. (British Museum) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WmqmO3UReq\">pic.twitter.com\/WmqmO3UReq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1887243727267373186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God our Father, who art the source of strength to all thy saints, and who didst bring the holy martyrs of Japan through the suffering of the cross to the joys of life eternal: Grant that we, being encouraged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134719\">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":[186,438,506,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-japan-asia","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134719","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=134719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134722,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134719\/revisions\/134722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}