{"id":145854,"date":"2026-06-13T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145854"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:32:12","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-first-book-of-common-prayer-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145854","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of the first Book of Common Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty and everliving God, whose servant Thomas Cranmer, with others, did restore the language of the people in the prayers of thy Church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with the understanding, that we may worthily magnify thy holy Name; 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\">The Episcopal Church today commemorates The First Book of Common Prayer, which was used for the first time on Pentecost Sunday in 1549<br><br>Image: Title page from the BCP, 1549 (Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5oErBmWc4i\">pic.twitter.com\/5oErBmWc4i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/1793507209193865594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty and everliving God, whose servant Thomas Cranmer, with others, did restore the language of the people in the prayers of thy Church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145854\">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":[432,67,186,324,133,122,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-common-prayer","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-history","category-language","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145854","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=145854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145856,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145854\/revisions\/145856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}