{"id":144418,"date":"2026-04-05T06:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144418"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:41:53","slug":"a-prayer-of-thanksgiving-for-easter-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144418","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast broken for us the bonds of sin and brought us into fellowship with the Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast overcome death and opened to us the gates of eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because where two or three are gathered together in thy Name there art thou in the midst of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou ever livest to make intercession for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For these and all other benefits of thy mighty resurrection, thanks be unto thee O Christ.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the Christian celebration of Easter quite particularly an affirmation of the whole of existence is experienced and celebrated. No more rightful, more comprehensive<br>and fundamental an affirmation can be conceived.<br>\u2013 Josef Pieper, In Tune with the World 49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JVgkHx8iAM\">pic.twitter.com\/JVgkHx8iAM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jacob Sherman (@Shermanicus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shermanicus\/status\/2040726387443859763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast broken for us the bonds of sin and brought us into fellowship with the Father. Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast overcome death and opened to us the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144418\">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":[571,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144418","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=144418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144420,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144418\/revisions\/144420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}