{"id":70503,"date":"2018-04-24T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70503"},"modified":"2018-04-24T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:54:44","slug":"a-prayer-for-saint-mellitus-day-from-a-college-that-bears-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70503","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Saint Mellitus Day from a College that bears His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stmellitus.org\/history\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God of grace and wisdom,<br \/>\nwho called your servant Mellitus<br \/>\nto leave his home and proclaim your Word:<br \/>\ngrant to all who belong to the college that bears his name<br \/>\ndiligence for study, fervour for mission,<br \/>\nand perseverance for ministry,<br \/>\nthat they might shine with your love and truth<br \/>\nin these dioceses and beyond,<br \/>\nfor the sake of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today the Church of England commemorates Mellitus, Bishop of London, 1st Bishop at St Paul\u2019s, 624. Mellitus, a native of Italy, was a member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 AD to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, and was also 3rd Archbishop of Canterbury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dl8YDwATnq\">pic.twitter.com\/Dl8YDwATnq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anglican Church SPB (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/988724693363580928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 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>From there: God of grace and wisdom, who called your servant Mellitus to leave his home and proclaim your Word: grant to all who belong to the college that bears his name diligence for study, fervour for mission, and perseverance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70503\">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":[186,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503","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=70503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70506,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70503\/revisions\/70506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}