{"id":87912,"date":"2019-12-26T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87912"},"modified":"2019-12-26T05:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T10:33:26","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-stephen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87912","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We give thee thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to heaven and prayed for his persecutors to thy Son Jesus Christ, who standeth at thy right hand: where he liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Stoning of St Stephen&#8221;, altarpiece of San Giorgio Maggiore (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Venice<\/a>) by Jacopo &amp; Domenico <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tintoretto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tintoretto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>St. Stephen was the First Martyr: in Western <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christianity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christianity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/26December?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#26December<\/a> is called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaintStephen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaintStephen<\/a>&#8216;s Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My oldest son\u2019s name is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stefano?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Stefano<\/a>! &#x1f49e;&#x1f496;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArtLovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArtLovers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Art?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Art<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#artist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAWb5WRT2R\">pic.twitter.com\/eAWb5WRT2R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annarita Ruberto (@Nereide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nereide\/status\/1210139412555800581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2019<\/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>We give thee thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to heaven and prayed for his persecutors to thy Son Jesus Christ, who standeth at thy right hand: where he liveth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87912\">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":[186,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87912","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=87912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87914,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87912\/revisions\/87914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}