{"id":68175,"date":"2018-02-14T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68175"},"modified":"2018-02-22T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:07:10","slug":"a-prayer-for-ash-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68175","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Ash Wednesday as Lent 2018 Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son hast taught us that whosoever will be his disciple must take up his cross and follow him: Help us with willing heart to mortify our sinful affections, and depart from every selfish indulgence by which we sin against thee. Strengthen us to resist temptation, and to walk in the narrow way that leadeth unto life; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God. (Joel 2:13)<\/p>\n<p>For daily scripture, reflections, and encouragement this Lenten season, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A2EmlnJesR\">https:\/\/t.co\/A2EmlnJesR<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EWTN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EWTN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Catholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Catholic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ashtag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ashtag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AshWednesday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AshWednesday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V0cTLOr34B\">pic.twitter.com\/V0cTLOr34B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EWTN (@EWTN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWTN\/status\/963729731328860170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son hast taught us that whosoever will be his disciple must take up his cross and follow him: Help us with willing heart to mortify our sinful affections, and depart from every selfish indulgence by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68175\">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":[569,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175","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=68175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68230,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175\/revisions\/68230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}