{"id":141366,"date":"2025-11-22T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141366"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:12:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-c-s-lewis-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141366","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of C S Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give thee thanks for Clive Staples Lewis whose sanctified imagination lighteth fires of faith in young and old alike; Surprise us also with thy joy and draw us into that new and abundant life which is ours in Christ Jesus, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">22 November 1963: Author and academic Clive Staples (\u201cCS\u201d) Lewis died. (aged 64). He\u2019s best known for his works of fiction especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JhxfklLKSB\">pic.twitter.com\/JhxfklLKSB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FXMC1957\/status\/1992164809047953858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give thee thanks for Clive Staples Lewis whose sanctified imagination lighteth fires of faith in young and old alike; Surprise us also with thy joy and draw us into that new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141366\">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":[174,186,324,437,113,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-poetry-literature","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366","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=141366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141368,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366\/revisions\/141368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}