{"id":146414,"date":"2026-07-09T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146414"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:43:07","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-hedda-of-wessex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146414","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of\u00a0Saint Hedda of Wessex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gracious who called your servant Hedda to lead the diocese of Winchester in ages past, grant that we, like him, may through your Holy Spirit seek to lead a faithful life of love, wisdom and concern for the church&#8217;s unity and witness, through Jesus Christ our Lord who with you an the Holy Spirit lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen (moved from yesterday).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">July 7: Feast of H\u00e6dde (\u2020705), bishop of Wintanc\u00e6stir (Winchester). He was educated at Strean\u00e6shalch (Whitby) and consecrated by Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, in 676. Bede remarks on his prudence and innate wisdom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbvpDDP75k\">pic.twitter.com\/sbvpDDP75k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; North Ages (@NorthAges) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NorthAges\/status\/2074407371942608997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracious who called your servant Hedda to lead the diocese of Winchester in ages past, grant that we, like him, may through your Holy Spirit seek to lead a faithful life of love, wisdom and concern for the church&#8217;s unity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146414\">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":[186,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146414","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=146414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146416,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146414\/revisions\/146416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}