{"id":141941,"date":"2025-12-17T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141941"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:15:03","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-dorothy-sayers-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141941","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Dorothy Sayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Incarnate God, who didst grant the grace of eloquence unto thy servant Dorothy to defend thy truth unto a distressed church, and to proclaim the importance of Christian principles for the world; grant unto us thy same grace that, aided by her prayers and example, we too may have the passionate conviction to teach right doctrine and to teach doctrine rightly; We ask this in thy name, who livest and reignest with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire, for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SteepleSaturday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SteepleSaturday<\/a>. The writer Dorothy L Sayers grew up in this parish. Her father was the rector, a bellringing enthusiast who restored the bells here and became the model for the Reverend Venables in her book The Nine Tailors. <br><br>The landscape of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/32423XEicR\">pic.twitter.com\/32423XEicR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/1941604491775852589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incarnate God, who didst grant the grace of eloquence unto thy servant Dorothy to defend thy truth unto a distressed church, and to proclaim the importance of Christian principles for the world; grant unto us thy same grace that, aided<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141941\">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":[174,186,324,113,188,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-poetry-literature","category-spiritualityprayer","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141941","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=141941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141945,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141941\/revisions\/141945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}