{"id":145359,"date":"2026-05-23T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145359"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:04:38","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-nicolaus-copernicus-and-johannes-kepler-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145359","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the heavens declare thy glory, O God, and the firmament showeth thy handiwork, we bless thy Name for the gifts of knowledge and insight thou didst bestow upon Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler; and we pray that thou wouldst continue to advance our understanding of thy cosmos, for our good and for thy glory; through Jesus Christ, the firstborn of all creation, who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is November 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1630 astronomer Johannes Kepler passed away. He discovered three major laws of planetary motion. Kepler\u2019s discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus\u2019s Sun-centered system into a dynamic universe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kwCCXSZjSj\">pic.twitter.com\/kwCCXSZjSj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mario Livio (@Mario_Livio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mario_Livio\/status\/1857335187643756728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the heavens declare thy glory, O God, and the firmament showeth thy handiwork, we bless thy Name for the gifts of knowledge and insight thou didst bestow upon Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler; and we pray that thou wouldst<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145359\">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":[186,133,95,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-history","category-science-technology","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145359","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=145359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145360,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145359\/revisions\/145360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}