{"id":145729,"date":"2026-06-09T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145729"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:20:39","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-columba-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145729","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Columba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who by the preaching of thy blessed servant Columba didst cause the light of the Gospel to shine in Scotland: Grant, we beseech thee, that, having his life and labors in remembrance, we may show forth our thankfulness to thee by following the example of his zeal and patience; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s the feast of St Columba, a 6th Century Irish abbot and missionary to what would become Scotland, who founded Iona Abbey and is the patron saint of the fair city of Derry. Glass by Karl Parsons, made in 1913 for Sulhamstead, Berkshire, now in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pi8UXS9iz4\">pic.twitter.com\/Pi8UXS9iz4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/2064228702569771485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who by the preaching of thy blessed servant Columba didst cause the light of the Gospel to shine in Scotland: Grant, we beseech thee, that, having his life and labors in remembrance, we may show forth our thankfulness<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145729\">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":[444,186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145729","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=145729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145732,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145729\/revisions\/145732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}