{"id":141612,"date":"2025-12-04T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141612"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:42:32","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-john-of-damascus-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141612","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of John of Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Confirm our minds, O Lord, in the mysteries of the true faith, set forth with power by thy servant John of Damascus; that we, with him, confessing Jesus to be true God and true Man, and singing the praises of the risen Lord, may, by the power of the resurrection, attain to eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for evermore.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On this day we remember St. John of Damascus. Monk, priest, defender of the faith, and a voice who spoke the truth with clarity and courage. He is often remembered as &quot;the last of the Greek Fathers.&quot;<br>He defended the use of icons not for beauty\u2019s sake, but because the Incarnation\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7PeeS3DJ7\">pic.twitter.com\/F7PeeS3DJ7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bishop Stephen Smuts (@BishopSmuts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishopSmuts\/status\/1996514302606344600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirm our minds, O Lord, in the mysteries of the true faith, set forth with power by thy servant John of Damascus; that we, with him, confessing Jesus to be true God and true Man, and singing the praises of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141612\">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-141612","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\/141612","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=141612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141641,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141612\/revisions\/141641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}