{"id":145125,"date":"2026-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145125"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:32:21","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-frances-perkins-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145125","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Frances Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loving God, we bless thy Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: Help us, following her example and in union with her prayers, to contend tirelessly for justice and for the protection of all, that we may be faithful followers of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10 April 1880: Labor Secretary Frances <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Perkins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Perkins<\/a> is born in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Boston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Boston<\/a>, Massachusetts. She was the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/female?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#female<\/a> cabinet member and is the longest service <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Labor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Labor<\/a> Secretary, having served from March 4, 1933 until June 30, 1945. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#history<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyBirthday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyBirthday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ShRi75iIoJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/ShRi75iIoJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyzWRhB7Tv\">pic.twitter.com\/jyzWRhB7Tv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Today In History (@URDailyHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/URDailyHistory\/status\/1513094939923476485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving God, we bless thy Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: Help us, following her example and in union with her prayers, to contend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145125\">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":[209,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145125","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=145125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145129,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145125\/revisions\/145129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}