{"id":185,"date":"2014-06-13T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=185"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:23:00","slug":"value-of-church-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Value of Church Services&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Time and again the fathers received fortastes of heavenly blessedness: spiritual consolations which gave them strength to continue their struggle, like blissful rest at the end of a day&#8217;s oil. When the hardships of life would amount to a point which seemed almost beyond endurance, and ineffable joy would suddenly be ushered in coming not from anything outside, but from within the daily life itself, from the divinely revealed a pattern of church services. Father Seraphim love the services because they represented an actual participation in the life of another dimension \u2013 \u2013 a dimension without the presence of which life on earth would truly be meaningless. To him the services were a stepping stone to eternity.&#8221;<br \/>\nComments about Fr. Seraphim Rose<br \/>\n~His Life and Works<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/157863_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/157863_t.jpg\" alt=\"157863_t\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Time and again the fathers received fortastes of heavenly blessedness: spiritual consolations which gave them strength to continue their struggle, like blissful rest at the end of a day&#8217;s oil. When the hardships of life would amount to a point which seemed almost beyond endurance, and ineffable joy would suddenly be ushered in coming not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}