{"id":134966,"date":"2025-02-15T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134966"},"modified":"2025-02-15T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:19:30","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-thomas-bray-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134966","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God of compassion, who didst open the eyes of thy servant Thomas Bray to see the needs of the Church in the New World, and didst lead him to found societies to meet those needs: Make the Church in this land diligent at all times to propagate the Gospel among those who have not received it, and to promote the spread of Christian knowledge; 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\">Thomas Bray was an English clergyman and abolitionist who helped formally establish the Church of England in Maryland. He&#39;s often referred to as the Father of the Modern Lending Library.<br><br>Image: Unknown artist, Cambridge University Library, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x0y0S2vzib\">pic.twitter.com\/x0y0S2vzib<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Saint Barnabas Anglican Church (@Barnabas_FW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barnabas_FW\/status\/1890744119930012116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of compassion, who didst open the eyes of thy servant Thomas Bray to see the needs of the Church in the New World, and didst lead him to found societies to meet those needs: Make the Church in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134966\">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":[186,182,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-missions","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134966","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=134966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134968,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134966\/revisions\/134968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}