{"id":3037,"date":"2017-02-27T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T01:34:32","slug":"quote-for-the-1st-monday-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the 1st Monday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjrog\" data-offset-key=\"bokjo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bokjo-0-0\">&#8220;Throughout this period, at every service in Great Lent, we say the prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian (\u201cO Lord and Master of my life&#8230;.&#8221;), With 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>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjrog\" data-offset-key=\"98ptf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"98ptf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"98ptf-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Ephraim of Arizona)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"98ptf-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3038\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1lm-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"1lm\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1lm-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1lm-768x825.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1lm.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjrog\" data-offset-key=\"e9kpr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e9kpr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e9kpr-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjrog\" data-offset-key=\"3u8o5-0-0\"><\/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 (\u201cO Lord and Master of my life&#8230;.&#8221;), With these words, the saint [&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-3037","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\/3037","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=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}