{"id":193,"date":"2010-03-26T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:44:22","slug":"the-lenten-prayer-of-st-ephrem-the-syrian-about-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"The Lenten Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian (about  humility)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.\u00a0         But give rather the spirit of\u00a0         chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.  Yea, O         Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my         brother; For Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The  first and wonderful fruit of this wholeness or chastity is <em>humility.<\/em> We already spoke of it. It is above everything else the victory  of truth         in us, the elimination of all lies in which we usually live. <em>Humility<\/em> alone is capable of truth, of seeing and accepting things as  they are         and therefore of seeing God&#8217;s majesty and goodness and love in         everything. This is why we are told that God gives grace to the  humble         and resists the proud.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.\u00a0 But give rather the spirit of\u00a0 chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother; For Thou [&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-193","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\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}