{"id":144766,"date":"2026-04-25T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144766"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:39:39","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-mark-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144766","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God,<br>who enlightened your holy Church<br>through the inspired witness of your evangelist Saint Mark:<br>grant that we, being firmly grounded in the truth of the gospel,<br>may be faithful to its teaching both in word and deed;<br>through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,<br>who is alive and reigns with you,<br>in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br>one God, now and for ever.<br>Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">25th April is the feast of St Mark the Evangelist. Here is his symbol, the lion depicted in &#39;The Book of Kells&#39;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StMarktheEvangelist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StMarktheEvangelist<\/a> <br>Trinity College Dublin, IE TCD MS 58; The Book of Kells; c.800 CE; Iona; f.27v <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tcdlibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tcdlibrary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OtuYrhecnB\">pic.twitter.com\/OtuYrhecnB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ennius (@red_loeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/red_loeb\/status\/2047996342216130933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God,who enlightened your holy Churchthrough the inspired witness of your evangelist Saint Mark:grant that we, being firmly grounded in the truth of the gospel,may be faithful to its teaching both in word and deed;through Jesus Christ your Son our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144766\">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":[186,188,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144766","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=144766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144768,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144766\/revisions\/144768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}