{"id":139498,"date":"2025-09-05T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139498"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:16:14","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139498","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Katharina Zell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, whose servant Katharina Zell toiled for the reform of thy church both in word and in deed: Fill us with the wisdom to speak out in defense of thy truth, with love for thee and for our neighbor, that we may serve thee and welcome all thy people with a mother&#8217;s heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">500 yrs ago today, 3 December 1523, Matth\u00e4us Zell, a Protestant Reformer based at Strasbourg, married Katharina Sch\u00fctz (-Zell). The idea of clerical marriage, which we now consider commonplace, was unfamiliar &amp; scandalous to most people in the early 1520s.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ILoveTheReformation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ILoveTheReformation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yIXGCYfDI2\">pic.twitter.com\/yIXGCYfDI2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Stephen Eccher (@Stephen_Eccher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stephen_Eccher\/status\/1731464914202431632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, whose servant Katharina Zell toiled for the reform of thy church both in word and in deed: Fill us with the wisdom to speak out in defense of thy truth, with love for thee and for our neighbor,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139498\">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-139498","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\/139498","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=139498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139505,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139498\/revisions\/139505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}