{"id":143853,"date":"2026-03-11T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143853"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:30:16","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-kessog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143853","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast day of Saint Kessog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gracious God, we thank you for the life and witness of Saint Kessog, who brought the light of the Gospel to the lands of Scotland.\u00a0Grant us grace that we may follow his example, be resolute in our faith even amidst great challenges, and bring peace, hope and love to everyone to whom we minister through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit ever reigns, one God over all. Amen (moved from yesterday).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things named after St Kessog:<br>1. Kessog bridge&#x1f4f7;<br>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kessock?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kessock<\/a> area of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Inverness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Inverness<\/a><br>3. Kessog oil field in the North Sea&#x1f4f7;!<br><br>St Kessog often depicted in military dress holding a bent bow with an arrow in it, or sword! Claimed he was a soldier saint! &#x1f3a8;Alan Lees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnOVlqxyVr\">pic.twitter.com\/HnOVlqxyVr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lorraineelizab6\/status\/1237275010001244160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracious God, we thank you for the life and witness of Saint Kessog, who brought the light of the Gospel to the lands of Scotland.\u00a0Grant us grace that we may follow his example, be resolute in our faith even amidst<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143853\">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":[443,444,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-england-uk","category-scotland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143853","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=143853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143855,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143853\/revisions\/143855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}