{"id":73983,"date":"2018-09-29T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73983"},"modified":"2018-09-29T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:04:06","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-saint-ambrose-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73983","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to Begin the Day from Saint Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merciful Lord, the Comforter and Teacher of Thy faithful people, increase in Thy Church the desires which Thou hast given, and confirm the hearts of those who hope in Thee by enabling them to understand the depth of Thy promises, that all Thine adopted sons may even now behold, with the eyes of faith, and patiently wait for, the light which as yet Thou dost not openly manifest; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;James Manning,ed., <b>Prayers of the Early Church<\/b> (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1953)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOmnia Christus est nobis! If you have a wound to heal, He is the doctor; if you are parched by fever, He is the spring; if you are oppressed by injustice, He is justice; if you are in need of help, He is strength; if you fear death, He is life\u201d Saint Ambrose. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fjdX9jbc4a\">pic.twitter.com\/fjdX9jbc4a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrJamesBradley\/status\/938682616311672832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2017<\/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>Merciful Lord, the Comforter and Teacher of Thy faithful people, increase in Thy Church the desires which Thou hast given, and confirm the hearts of those who hope in Thee by enabling them to understand the depth of Thy promises,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73983\">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":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73983","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=73983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73992,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73983\/revisions\/73992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}