{"id":148495,"date":"2026-11-03T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148495"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:55:52","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-richard-hooker-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148495","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Richard Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O God of truth and peace, who didst raise up thy servant Richard Hooker in a day of bitter controversy to defend with sound reasoning and great charity the catholic and reformed religion: Grant that we may maintain that middle way, not as a compromise for the sake of peace, but as a comprehension for the sake of truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tuesday 3rd is the Lesser Festival of Richard Hooker, we celebrate with Holy Communion at 9.00am.  Hooker (25\/3\/1554 \u2013 2\/11\/1600) was an English priest in the Church of England, Anglican divine, and an influential theologian. \n\nMore at https:\/\/t.co\/8vBz4UHBAU \n\n#AllWelcomeAlways https:\/\/t.co\/j2EngXD2cB<\/p>&mdash; All Saints Hertford (@AllSaintsHertf) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AllSaintsHertf\/status\/2116953825651073042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of truth and peace, who didst raise up thy servant Richard Hooker in a day of bitter controversy to defend with sound reasoning and great charity the catholic and reformed religion: Grant that we may maintain that middle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148495\">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":[186,389,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148495","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=148495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148499,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148495\/revisions\/148499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}