{"id":142151,"date":"2025-12-25T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142151"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:28:06","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-day-from-the-acna-prayerbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142151","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for Christmas day from the ACNA Prayerbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born this day of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with you and the same Spirit be honor and glory, now and for ever. <strong>\u2009Amen.<\/strong><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD<br><br>&quot;The Word is made flesh, and yet He remains silent. He teaches us more by His silence in the crib than by all the discourses of the wise.<br><br>If we wish to understand the ways of God, we must kneel at Bethlehem. There we learn that God acts not by force,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CX0Nl6A5IB\">pic.twitter.com\/CX0Nl6A5IB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Memento Mori (@TempusFugit4016) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TempusFugit4016\/status\/2004029998785511870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born this day of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142151\">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":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142151","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=142151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142158,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142151\/revisions\/142158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}