{"id":549,"date":"2003-06-15T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2003-06-15T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=549"},"modified":"2003-06-15T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2003-06-15T17:15:06","slug":"happy-fathers-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/happy-fathers-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Father&#8217;s Day Lord God,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Happy Father&#8217;s Day<\/b><br \/>\nLord God, loving father of us all, guide and instruct my husband in your ways that he may be a good earthly father to our children.<br \/>\nHelp him to be wise and prudent in carrying out your designs for him as a father, and aid him that in all his ways his inspiration and example will direct our children&#8217;s thoughts to You.<br \/>\nGrant him patience in carrying out the difficult and burdensome taks of being a good father.<br \/>\nTeach him a strength and firmness that is tempered with gentleness and is never harsh or forbidding.<br \/>\nTeach him to be kind without being yielding or indulgent.<br \/>\nGive him the understanding that a father should have &#8212; an understanding that will invite the confidence of his children.<br \/>\nGive him the cheerful strength that is so often needed in times of trial; and may his love for our children, and my love for him, sustain him in these times of stress.<br \/>\nGive him a childlike trust in you, and may that trust in you be rewarded by a mirroring of your fatherhood in him.  And so may his children know an increase of joy and love as they are brought closer to You through him.  Amen.<br \/>\nfrom <i>Mothers&#8217; Manual<\/i> by A. Francis Coomes, S. J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Father&#8217;s Day Lord God, loving father of us all, guide and instruct my husband in your ways that he may be a good earthly father to our children. Help him to be wise and prudent in carrying out your designs for him as a father, and aid him that in all his ways his&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/happy-fathers-d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Father&#8217;s Day Lord God,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}