{"id":146536,"date":"2026-07-15T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146536"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:01:02","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-swithun-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146536","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Swithun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God,<br>by whose grace we celebrate again<br>the feast of your servant Swithun:<br>grant that, as he governed with gentleness<br>the people committed to his care,<br>so we, rejoicing in our Christian inheritance,<br>may always seek to build up your Church in unity and love;<br>through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,<br>who is alive and reigns with you,<br>in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br>one God, now and forever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/2 St Swithin on the village sign at Ashmanhaugh, Norfolk, where the church, which has the narrowest round tower in England, is also dedicated to him, two of the four in the county. More on these two: <br><br>Frettenham: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C1pJ38sGp8\">https:\/\/t.co\/C1pJ38sGp8<\/a><br>Ashmanhaugh: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4INAxVAHTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/4INAxVAHTP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lcQAPJayXO\">pic.twitter.com\/lcQAPJayXO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/2077293280711065882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God,by whose grace we celebrate againthe feast of your servant Swithun:grant that, as he governed with gentlenessthe people committed to his care,so we, rejoicing in our Christian inheritance,may always seek to build up your Church in unity and love;through<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146536\">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":[186,389,635,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146536","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=146536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146539,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146536\/revisions\/146539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}