{"id":10174,"date":"2021-08-12T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2021-08-08T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:04:28","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-12-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10174","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4havq\" data-offset-key=\"cv8v1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cv8v1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cv8v1-0-0\">\u201cCritical to our prayer life, to our struggle with God, is to be alone with Him. We must be detached, as the ascetic fathers so often remind us, from every worldly concern in order to engage in this struggle of prayer. We must enter the prayer closet and close the door to all distracting influences in order to be in a position to experience the penetrating gaze of our heavenly Father\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4havq\" data-offset-key=\"2nvu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2nvu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2nvu-0-0\">(Fr John Konkle, reflection)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4havq\" data-offset-key=\"81omg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"81omg-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10175\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/yyrry-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/yyrry-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/yyrry-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/yyrry.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCritical to our prayer life, to our struggle with God, is to be alone with Him. We must be detached, as the ascetic fathers so often remind us, from every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}