{"id":195297,"date":"2026-02-26T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:12:17","slug":"kern-county-catholic-prayer-breakfast-held-in-downtown-bakersfield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195297\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Catholic Prayer Breakfast held in downtown Bakersfield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Kern County Catholics came together for a morning of faith and community Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kern Catholic Prayer Breakfast began with a mass at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in downtown Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Attendees prayed the rosary with Bishop Joseph Brennan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was followed by breakfast and a keynote address delivered by Father Mike Schmitz, an author, podcaster and a regular on the faith-based app called \u201cHallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s about unity, it\u2019s about coming together and praying together to have that feeling of fellowship and just a sense of unity that we\u2019re not in the world alone and God is with us,\u201d said Marcie Soper, chair of Kern Catholic Prayer Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The theme of this year\u2019s talk was \u201cCultivate a Garden in your Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Kern County Catholics came together for a morning of faith and community Wednesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,91199,1048,91200,735,328],"class_list":["post-195297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-catholic-prayer","tag-downtown-bakersfield","tag-father-mike-schmitz","tag-kern-county","tag-kget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}