{"id":146903,"date":"2026-07-30T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146903"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:29:39","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-william-wilberforce-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146903","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of William Wilberforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let thy continual mercy, O Lord, enkindle in thy Church the never-failing gift of love, that, following the example of thy servant William Wilberforce, we may have grace to defend the poor, and maintain the cause of those who have no helper; for the sake of him who gave his life for us, thy Son our Savior Jesus Christ, 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\">Politician William Wilberforce died <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/onthisday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#onthisday<\/a> in 1833. He is remembered for taking up the cause of abolishing slavery alongside Prime Minister Charles Grey. He is buried close to the grave of William Pitt in the Abbey\u2019s north transept, and his statue can be found in statesmen&#39;s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mY5QlNaZfQ\">pic.twitter.com\/mY5QlNaZfQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wabbey\/status\/2082407923347579138?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>Let thy continual mercy, O Lord, enkindle in thy Church the never-failing gift of love, that, following the example of thy servant William Wilberforce, we may have grace to defend the poor, and maintain the cause of those who have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146903\">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":[175,324,168,419,114,437,151,120,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146903","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=146903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146921,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146903\/revisions\/146921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}