{"id":146889,"date":"2026-07-29T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146889"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:42:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-mary-and-martha-of-bethany-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146889","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Mary and Martha of Bethany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, heavenly Father, whose Son Jesus Christ enjoyed rest and refreshment in the home of Mary and Martha of Bethany: Give us the will to love thee, open our hearts to hear thee, and strengthen our hands to serve thee in others for his sake; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s the feast of St Martha, St Mary and St Lazarus, the Bethany siblings. A roundel by William Wailes, 1857 at Stanground, Peterborough shows them with Christ. Although it&#39;s less than a mile from Peterborough Cathedral, Stanground is on the south bank of the Nene so it&#39;s in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEJID4VOjr\">pic.twitter.com\/BEJID4VOjr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/2082347658375573506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, heavenly Father, whose Son Jesus Christ enjoyed rest and refreshment in the home of Mary and Martha of Bethany: Give us the will to love thee, open our hearts to hear thee, and strengthen our hands to serve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146889\">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":[186,169,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-theology-scripture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146889","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=146889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146892,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146889\/revisions\/146892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}