{"id":136719,"date":"2025-04-23T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136719"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:43:04","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-george-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136719","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>God of hosts,<br>who so kindled the flame of love<br>in the heart of your servant George<br>that he bore witness to the risen Lord<br>by his life and by his death:<br>give us the same faith and power of love<br>that we who rejoice in his triumphs<br>may come to share with him the fullness of the resurrection;<br>through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,<br>who is alive and reigns with you,<br>in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br>one God, now and for ever.<br>Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s the feast of St George, by tradition a 3rd Century soldier in the Roman army and martyr under Diocletian. He&#39;s the patron saint of England. In an 11th Century legend he defeats a dragon to save a city, as shown on the early 16th Century roodscreen at Wellingham, Norfolk. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VnUzk6icqX\">pic.twitter.com\/VnUzk6icqX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/1914932511097983305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of hosts,who so kindled the flame of lovein the heart of your servant Georgethat he bore witness to the risen Lordby his life and by his death:give us the same faith and power of lovethat we who rejoice in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136719\">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":[186,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719","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=136719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136721,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719\/revisions\/136721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}