{"id":142239,"date":"2025-12-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142239"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:47:10","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-holy-innocents-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142239","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the feast day of the Holy Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We remember this day, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by the order of King Herod. Receive, we beseech thee, into the arms of thy mercy all innocent victims; and by thy great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish thy rule of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we commemorate the 14,000 Infants (the Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem <br><br>Read the account: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IASbC8KhIU\">https:\/\/t.co\/IASbC8KhIU<\/a><br><br>More saints commemorated today: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4wHTCz3Ka2\">https:\/\/t.co\/4wHTCz3Ka2<\/a> <br><br>Music downloads: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ISgw7RH8QE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ISgw7RH8QE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#saints<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/feastsandsaints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#feastsandsaints<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHJK2WL1GU\">pic.twitter.com\/MHJK2WL1GU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Orthodox Church OCA (@ocaorg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ocaorg\/status\/2005617303627702586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We remember this day, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by the order of King Herod. Receive, we beseech thee, into the arms of thy mercy all innocent victims; and by thy great might frustrate the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142239\">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":[101,186,438,188,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142239","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=142239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142248,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142239\/revisions\/142248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}