{"id":335,"date":"2014-07-30T00:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-07-30T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:44:17","slug":"true-prayer-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"True Prayer of the Heart&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not remember how it started off by a know very well that I had just begun and had not pronounced the Name of our Christ many times before my heart was filled with love for God. Suddenly it increased so much that I was no longer praying but wondering in amazement at this outpouring of love. I wanted to embrace and kiss all people and the whole of creation and at the same time I was so humble in my thoughts that I felt I was the lowest of all creatures.&#8221;<br \/>\n~Fr. Joseph of Vatopedi as a disciple<br \/>\n~My Elder Joseph<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/181696_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/181696_t.jpg\" alt=\"181696_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not remember how it started off by a know very well that I had just begun and had not pronounced the Name of our Christ many times before my heart was filled with love for God. Suddenly it increased so much that I was no longer praying but wondering in amazement at this [&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-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}