{"id":144742,"date":"2026-04-24T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144742"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:41:18","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-ecgberht-c-638-729-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144742","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the Feast day of Ecgberht (c.638-729)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who in your kindness called your servant blessed Egbert to the following of Christ, and through whom you &nbsp;you nurtured evangelists who brought Christ&#8217;s light to new lands, grant us by your Holy Spirit to follow his example&nbsp;through Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit ever liveth and reigneth in glory everlasting, Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apr 24: Feast of Ecgberht (c.638-729), Northumbrian who lived as a monk at the monastery of R\u00e1ith M\u00e1elsigi (Clonmelsh, Ireland). He survived plague and later lived on Iona, where he helped persuade the community to change to the Roman Easter and tonsure. &#x1f4f8;August Schwerdfeger <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8yDCRw5Za\">pic.twitter.com\/Z8yDCRw5Za<\/a><\/p>&mdash; North Ages (@NorthAges) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorthAges\/status\/2047565310597697831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who in your kindness called your servant blessed Egbert to the following of Christ, and through whom you &nbsp;you nurtured evangelists who brought Christ&#8217;s light to new lands, grant us by your Holy Spirit to follow his example&nbsp;through<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144742\">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":[443,444,186,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-england-uk","category-scotland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144742","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=144742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144745,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144742\/revisions\/144745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}