{"id":996,"date":"2015-02-24T01:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=996"},"modified":"2015-02-24T01:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:56:03","slug":"great-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Great Lent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #404040;\">&#8220;Throughout this period, at every service in Great Lent, we say the prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian \u00a0(\u201cO Lord and Master of my life&#8230;.&#8221;), \u00a0With these words, the saint wishes to make us understand very clearly, that, apart from other virtues we need to take special care with the last case, that of self-censure and of criticism of our bothers and that without love for our fellow human beings there\u2019s no chance of making even the slightest progress towards our spiritual purification. If we don\u2019t pay attention to our thoughts, our words and our heart, there\u2019s no benefit in fasting.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Lent<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27337_p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27337_p-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"27337_p\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27337_p-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27337_p.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Throughout this period, at every service in Great Lent, we say the prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian \u00a0(\u201cO Lord and Master of my life&#8230;.&#8221;), \u00a0With these words, the saint wishes to make us understand very clearly, that, apart from other virtues we need to take special care with the last case, that of self-censure [&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-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}