{"id":145226,"date":"2026-05-19T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145226"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:43:56","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-dunstan-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145226","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Dunstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God of truth and beauty, who didst richly endow thy Bishop Dunstan with skill in music and the working of metals, and with gifts of administration and reforming zeal: Teach us, we beseech thee, to see in thee the source of all our talents, and move us to offer them for the adornment of worship and the advancement of true religion; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the Feast of St. Dunstan of Canterbury.<br><br>His multifaceted legacy includes his time as Archbishop of Canterbury, his reform of the monasteries, and as royal advisor to the Kings of Wessex.<br>He is Patron Saint of musicians and bellringers. He is depicted with tongs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ihhpmkkUuE\">pic.twitter.com\/ihhpmkkUuE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ninefold Kyrie (@Gda1238) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gda1238\/status\/2056633228572651588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of truth and beauty, who didst richly endow thy Bishop Dunstan with skill in music and the working of metals, and with gifts of administration and reforming zeal: Teach us, we beseech thee, to see in thee the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145226\">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":[67,186,389,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145226","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=145226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145243,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145226\/revisions\/145243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}