{"id":183,"date":"2010-03-22T01:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=183"},"modified":"2010-03-22T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:59:21","slug":"prayer-of-st-ephrem-syrian-about-chastity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian (about Chastity)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chastity!<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> If one         does not reduce this term, as is so often and erroneously done,  only to         its sexual connotations, it is understood as the positive  counterpart of         sloth. The exact and full translation of the Greek <em>sofrosini<\/em> and         the Russian <em>tselomudryie<\/em> ought to be <em>whole-mindedness.<\/em> Sloth is, first of all, dissipation, the brokenness of our  vision and         energy, the inability to see the whole. Its opposite then is  precisely <em>wholeness<\/em>.         If we usually mean by chastity the virtue opposed to sexual  depravity,         it is because the broken character of our existence is nowhere  better         manifested than in sexual lust &#8212; the alienation of the body  from the         life and control of the spirit. Christ restores wholeness in us  and He         does so by restoring in us the true scale of values by leading  us back         to God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chastity! If one does not reduce this term, as is so often and erroneously done, only to its sexual connotations, it is understood as the positive counterpart of sloth. The exact and full translation of the Greek sofrosini and the Russian tselomudryie ought to be whole-mindedness. Sloth is, first of all, dissipation, the brokenness of [&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-183","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\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}