{"id":140449,"date":"2025-10-13T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140449"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:05:15","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-edward-the-confessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140449","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Edward the Confessor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Oh God, who called your servant Edward to earthly throne, that he might advance your heavenly kingdom, and give him zeal for your Church and love for people. Mercifully grant that we who remember him this day, may by your Spirit be fruitful in good works and attain to the glorious crowns of your saints, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns with you as one God in glory everlasting, Amen.<\/pre><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everyone is welcome to join us in worship as we stream the First Evensong of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor at 3pm (BST) today.<br><br>The service will be sung by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WAbbeyChoir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WAbbeyChoir<\/a> with music by Weelkes, Gibbons and Bruhns, and you can watch live or on demand at:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDeeSNDL9o\">pic.twitter.com\/BDeeSNDL9o<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wabbey\/status\/1977275534049526168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh God, who called your servant Edward to earthly throne, that he might advance your heavenly kingdom, and give him zeal for your Church and love for people. Mercifully grant that we who remember him this day, may by your<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140449\">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-140449","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\/140449","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=140449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140452,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140449\/revisions\/140452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}