{"id":60655,"date":"2016-01-28T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=60655"},"modified":"2016-01-28T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T04:16:39","slug":"st-ephrem-the-syrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/st-ephrem-the-syrian\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Ephrem The Syrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook celebrating the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (including <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/the-angelic-memes\/\" target=\"_blank\">some memes<\/a> I created a few years ago!), but today is also the feast day of St. Ephrem The Syrian, the only Deacon Doctor of the Church:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60656\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ephrem-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ephrem\" width=\"816\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ephrem-1.jpg 816w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ephrem-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ephrem-1-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ephrem-1-600x333.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the prayer we pray particularly often during Lent (&#8220;The Great Fast&#8221;) in the Eastern Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook celebrating the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (including some memes I created a few years ago!), but today is also the feast day of St. Ephrem The Syrian, the only Deacon Doctor of the Church: Here&#8217;s the prayer we pray particularly often during Lent (&#8220;The Great Fast&#8221;) in the Eastern Church: O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2118,885,3570],"class_list":["post-60655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-great-fast","tag-lent","tag-st-ephrem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60655","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=60655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60661,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60655\/revisions\/60661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}