{"id":145098,"date":"2026-05-12T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145098"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:06:05","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-brendan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145098","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Saint\u00a0Brendan of Birr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who in your mercy called your servant Saint Brendan and gifted him with the courage and the wisdom to act as a peacemaker at the Synod of Meath, help us and bring reconciliation to your church and our troubled world., through Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit ever liveth and reigneth in glory everlasting, Amen (moved from earlier in May).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">9 May, 29 Nov: St Brendan &quot;the elder&quot; (d. 565-573) of Biorra\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Birr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Birr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Offaly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Offaly<\/a>. 1 of 12 Apostles of Ireland! Studied under St Finian of Clonard. Prophet; at synod of Teltown spoke on St Columba&#39;s behalf. Birr later produced 8\/9th C MacRegol\/Rushworth Gospels, now in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bodleianlibs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bodleianlibs<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RtR4Jodqo6\">pic.twitter.com\/RtR4Jodqo6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lorraineelizab6\/status\/2052991966288241003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 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 mercy called your servant Saint Brendan and gifted him with the courage and the wisdom to act as a peacemaker at the Synod of Meath, help us and bring reconciliation to your church and our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145098\">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":[443,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145098","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=145098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145102,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145098\/revisions\/145102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}