{"id":141864,"date":"2025-12-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141864"},"modified":"2025-12-13T06:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:19:38","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-lucy-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141864","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loving God, who for the salvation of all didst give Jesus Christ as light to a world in darkness: Illumine us, with thy daughter Lucy, with the light of Christ, that by the merits of his passion we may be led to eternal life; through the same Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Tis the year&#39;s midnight, and it is the day&#39;s,<br>Lucy&#39;s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks.<br><br>Today is St Lucy&#39;s Day, which was once the date of the winter solstice &#8211; the saint of light in the darkest days of winter. This luminous medieval St Lucy is from Minster Lovell. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hvnXM0k9N2\">pic.twitter.com\/hvnXM0k9N2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/1999746604962857266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving God, who for the salvation of all didst give Jesus Christ as light to a world in darkness: Illumine us, with thy daughter Lucy, with the light of Christ, that by the merits of his passion we may be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141864\">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":[186,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141864","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=141864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141866,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141864\/revisions\/141866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}