{"id":142978,"date":"2026-02-02T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142978"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:31:46","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-of-the-presentation-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142978","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast of the Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech thee that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord; 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\">Snowdrops are also known as \u2018Candlemas Bells\u2019, as they bloom around <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Candlemas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Candlemas<\/a>. This Christian celebration of light echoes the older pagan festival of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Imbolc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Imbolc<\/a>, and is observed on 2nd February to mark the ritual purification of Mary after the birth of Jesus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXjtITpZsf\">pic.twitter.com\/yXjtITpZsf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; VenetiaJane&#39;s Garden (@VenetiaJane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VenetiaJane\/status\/2018232953336205454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2026<\/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, we humbly beseech thee that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142978\">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":[187,188,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978","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=142978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142995,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978\/revisions\/142995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}