{"id":146782,"date":"2026-07-24T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146782"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:35:40","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146782","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas a Kempis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Holy Father, who hast nourished and strengthened thy Church by the writings of thy servant Thomas a Kempis: Grant that we may learn from him to know what we ought to know, to love what we ought to love, to praise what highly pleaseth thee, and always to seek to know and follow thy will; 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=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Thomas von Kempen<br><br>Prior in St. Agnetenberg, Priester<br><br>* Ende 1379 bis Mitte 1380 in Kempen am Niederrhein in Nordrhein-Westfalen<br>\u2020 1. Mai oder 25. Juli 1471 in St. Agnetenberg bei Zwolle in den Niederlanden &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/84miqGYxnT\">https:\/\/t.co\/84miqGYxnT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d55DDp1GCX\">pic.twitter.com\/d55DDp1GCX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lucas Benedikt (@LucasBenedikt) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LucasBenedikt\/status\/1948629795849269706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Father, who hast nourished and strengthened thy Church by the writings of thy servant Thomas a Kempis: Grant that we may learn from him to know what we ought to know, to love what we ought to love, to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146782\">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":[186,478,188,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-germany","category-spiritualityprayer","category-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146782","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=146782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146789,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146782\/revisions\/146789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}