{"id":863,"date":"2015-01-17T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=863"},"modified":"2015-01-17T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:28:12","slug":"role-of-the-monastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Role of the Monastic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The essential contribution of monasticism is prayer for the salvation of the world. \u00a0The monk is purified from the passions by the grace of God, communion with the pain of the world, and understands (despite living outside the world) the error, the distresses, the sinfulness of the world and \u00a0grieves for it, mourns and prays for God to give the spirit of repentance in the world.&#8221;<br \/>\nArchimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi<br \/>\n~2015 Interview<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/194455_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-864\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/194455_t.jpg\" alt=\"194455_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The essential contribution of monasticism is prayer for the salvation of the world. \u00a0The monk is purified from the passions by the grace of God, communion with the pain of the world, and understands (despite living outside the world) the error, the distresses, the sinfulness of the world and \u00a0grieves for it, mourns and prays [&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-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}