{"id":53680,"date":"2015-04-21T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=53680"},"modified":"2015-04-21T07:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:28:36","slug":"when-west-meets-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/when-west-meets-east\/","title":{"rendered":"When West meets East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-53681 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PopeChotki.jpg\" alt=\"PopeChotki\" width=\"294\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PopeChotki.jpg 294w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PopeChotki-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>This is one of the many reasons I love Pope Francis. A while ago, back when the Pope was visiting Rio de Janiero, the public saw the pope wearing something around his right wrist.<\/p>\n<p>This series of beads is known as &#8220;chotki&#8221; or &#8220;komboskini&#8221;. It is a prayer rope, much like a rosary, whose invention is typically attributed to St. Pachomius in the fourth century and is still used today by eastern Christians, both Eastern Orthodox and Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>One prays by the chotki by reciting &#8220;The Jesus Prayer&#8221;\u00a0on each bead\/knot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although typically 100 beads, they can vary. There are also sometimes additional beads with invocations of Mary (&#8220;The <a title=\"Artwork of God\u2019s Artwork\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/theotokos-icons\/\">Theotokos<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things I noted reading Pope Francis&#8217; bio upon being a elected Pope was that he had strong connections to Eastern Christianity. It&#8217;s great to see him exposing the West to more of what the East has to offer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the many reasons I love Pope Francis. A while ago, back when the Pope was visiting Rio de Janiero, the public saw the pope wearing something around his right wrist. This series of beads is known as &#8220;chotki&#8221; or &#8220;komboskini&#8221;. It is a prayer rope, much like a rosary, whose invention is typically attributed to St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3014,2969,3016,3015,2094,3017],"class_list":["post-53680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-chotki","tag-featured","tag-jesus-prayer","tag-komboskini","tag-pope-francis","tag-prayer-rope"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BannerFrancis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57251,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53680\/revisions\/57251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}