{"id":142050,"date":"2025-12-22T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142050"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:34:31","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-thomas-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142050","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almighty and everliving God, who didst strengthen thine apostle Thomas with sure and certain faith in thy Son\u2019s resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, that our faith may never be found wanting in thy sight; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s the feast of Saint Thomas. <br><br>According to Eusebius, he was a missionary to Parthia (Iran). Early tradition also places him in India. His statue at San Giovanni in Rome. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FeastDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FeastDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StThomas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StThomas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eusebius?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eusebius<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a10bQygrf8\">pic.twitter.com\/a10bQygrf8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark Werling (@MarkWerling5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkWerling5\/status\/2002845891200471233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty and everliving God, who didst strengthen thine apostle Thomas with sure and certain faith in thy Son\u2019s resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, that our faith may<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142050\">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":[574,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142050","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=142050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142054,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142050\/revisions\/142054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}