{"id":137998,"date":"2025-06-24T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137998"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:47:10","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-nativity-of-john-the-baptist-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137998","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the Nativity of John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Almighty God, by whose providence thy servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent according to his preaching; and after his example constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth&#8217;s sake; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;His name is John&#39;<br><br>The infant St John the Baptist lies before his mother Elizabeth, while Zechariah confirms the child&#39;s name by writing on a slate. Early 16th Century German glass in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.<br><br>Today&#39;s the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. 1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cSmPZWSbbk\">pic.twitter.com\/cSmPZWSbbk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/1937399588018647320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, by whose providence thy servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137998\">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":[186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137998","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=137998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138024,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137998\/revisions\/138024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}