{"id":138,"date":"2010-02-27T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-03-06T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:03:31","slug":"great-lent-prayer-of-st-ephrem-syrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Great Lent Prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/svetijefremsirin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-139\" title=\"svetijefremsirin\" src=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/svetijefremsirin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"svetijefremsirin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>All prayers we say in this period of Great Lent could be summarized in words of the prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian which says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>O Lord and Master of my life,<br \/>\nGrant not unto me a spirit of idleness,<br \/>\nof discouragement,<br \/>\nof lust for power,<br \/>\nand of vain speaking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But bestow upon me, Thy servant,<br \/>\nthe spirit of chastity,<br \/>\nof meekness,<br \/>\nof patience,<br \/>\nand of love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yea, O Lord and King,<br \/>\ngrant that I may perceive<br \/>\nmy own transgressions,<br \/>\nand judge not my brother,<br \/>\nfor blessed art Thou<br \/>\nunto ages of ages.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All prayers we say in this period of Great Lent could be summarized in words of the prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian which says: O Lord and Master of my life, Grant not unto me a spirit of idleness, of discouragement, of lust for power, and of vain speaking. But bestow upon me, Thy servant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-fathers-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}