{"id":49715,"date":"2015-05-07T04:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_releases_prayer_for_the_general_election\/"},"modified":"2015-05-07T04:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:23:53","slug":"church_of_england_releases_prayer_for_the_general_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49715","title":{"rendered":"Church of England releases prayer for the General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has released the following prayer ahead of the General Election tomorrow:<\/p>\n<p><i>Lord, we give thanks for the privileges and responsibilities of living in a democratic society.<\/p>\n<p>Give us wisdom to play our part at election time, that, through the exercise of each vote, your Kingdom may come closer.<\/p>\n<p>Protect us from the sins of despair and cynicism, guard us against the idols of false utopias and strengthen us to make politics a noble calling that serves the common good of all.<\/p>\n<p>We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2015\/05\/church-of-england-releases-prayer-for-the-general-election.aspx\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> More suggestions from <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/07\/prayer-for-the-general-election-in-the-uk-today\">Lent and Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has released the following prayer ahead of the General Election tomorrow: Lord, we give thanks for the privileges and responsibilities of living in a democratic society. Give us wisdom to play our part at election time,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49715\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}