{"id":10588,"date":"2026-09-13T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:29:15","slug":"prayer-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10588","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Armas8-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sacred Multitude,<\/p>\n<p>We hear you in every language, every dialect, every sound that stirs the heart and shakes the earth.  At Babel, you shattered the walls of a singular tongue, and in that shattering we found our freedom.  We confess the times we&#8217;ve sought comfort in sameness, when we&#8217;ve turned away from the beauty of difference.  We embrace your mercy so that we may walk in wholeness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Open our ears to the voices we have ignored, open our hearts to the beauty we have feared.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kat Armas, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/liturgies_for_resisting_empire.html\">Liturgies for Resisting Empire<\/a><\/em>, p. 147<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Parc Botanique de Haut Bretagne, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred Multitude, We hear you in every language, every dialect, every sound that stirs the heart and shakes the earth. At Babel, you shattered the walls of a singular tongue, and in that shattering we found our freedom. We confess the times we&#8217;ve sought comfort in sameness, when we&#8217;ve turned away from the beauty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-community","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}