{"id":145137,"date":"2026-05-14T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145137"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:46:02","slug":"a-prayer-for-ascension-day-from-henry-alford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145137","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for Ascension day from Henry Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O Thou merciful and loving High Priest, who hast passed within the veil and art in the presence of the Father: Help us with thy mighty intercession, that, our unworthiness being clothed upon with thy perfect righteousness, we may stand accepted in the day of thy coming; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Hail the day that sees him rise&#39;<br><br>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AscensionDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AscensionDay<\/a>, when we celebrate Christ&#39;s Ascension into Heaven, forty days after Easter.<br><br>Everyone is welcome to join us for Sung Eucharist at 5pm (BST), either in the Abbey or via our livestream. The service will be sung by\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R9hXxQIiig\">pic.twitter.com\/R9hXxQIiig<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wabbey\/status\/2054826492488544294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Thou merciful and loving High Priest, who hast passed within the veil and art in the presence of the Father: Help us with thy mighty intercession, that, our unworthiness being clothed upon with thy perfect righteousness, we may stand<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145137\">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":[572,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ascension","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145137","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=145137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145151,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145137\/revisions\/145151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}