{"id":145190,"date":"2026-05-15T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145190"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:14:18","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-ascension-from-the-south-african-prayer-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145190","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the Ascension from the South African Prayer Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O Almighty God, who by thy holy apostle hast taught us to set our affection on things above: Grant us so to labour in this life as ever to be mindful of our citizenship in those heavenly places whither our Saviour Christ is gone before; to whom with thee, O Father, and thee, O Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ro\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Viri Galilaei, quid admiramini aspicientes in caelum? Hic Iesus qui assumptus est a vobis in caelum, sic veniet. Quemadmodum vidistis eum ascendentem in caelum&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charlottesrabt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Charlottesrabt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/art?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/painting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#painting<\/a><br>The Ascension, Benjamin West 1738\u20131820 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tN7HPQAyhG\">https:\/\/t.co\/tN7HPQAyhG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sAFThgYoa2\">pic.twitter.com\/sAFThgYoa2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Miguel Calabria (@MiguelCalabria3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiguelCalabria3\/status\/1268220165906456576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Almighty God, who by thy holy apostle hast taught us to set our affection on things above: Grant us so to labour in this life as ever to be mindful of our citizenship in those heavenly places whither our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145190\">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-145190","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\/145190","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=145190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145195,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145190\/revisions\/145195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}