{"id":139586,"date":"2025-09-09T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139586"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:41:11","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-the-martyrs-of-memphis-also-called-constance-and-her-companions-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139586","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the the Martyrs of Memphis (also called Constance and her Companions)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>We give thee thanks and praise, O God of compassion, for the heroic witness of the Martyrs of Memphis, who, in a time of plague and pestilence, were steadfast in their care for the sick and dying, and loved not their own lives, even unto death; Inspire in us a like love and commitment to those in need, following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we commemorate St. Constance and her five companions \u2014 the Martyrs of Memphis. <br><br>\u201cGreater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.\u201d (John 15:13) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGIj9a7vdw\">pic.twitter.com\/GGIj9a7vdw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fr. Brandon &#x2693;&#xfe0f; (@barukalas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barukalas\/status\/1700518889678159945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We give thee thanks and praise, O God of compassion, for the heroic witness of the Martyrs of Memphis, who, in a time of plague and pestilence, were steadfast in their care for the sick and dying, and loved not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139586\">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-139586","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\/139586","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=139586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139591,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139586\/revisions\/139591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}