{"id":24154,"date":"2008-12-04T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-john-of-damascus\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:34:16","slug":"saint-john-of-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-john-of-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John of Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like a tree planted by streams of water,&#8217; <i>Ps. 1:3<\/i> the soul is irrigated by the Bible and<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20of%20Damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"St John of Damascus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20of%20Damascus-thumb-250x333.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span>acquires vigor, produces tasty fruit, namely, true faith, and is beautified with a thousand green leaves, namely, actions that please God. (The Damascene)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Almighty and eternal God, Who did imbue blessed John with heavenly doctrine and wonderful fortitude of heart for defending the veneration of sacred images; grant that through his intercession and example we may imitate the virtues, and experience the protection of those whose we venerate<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saint John Damascene was an 8<sup>th<\/sup> century Syrian monk, a polymath, hymn writer, author and Doctor of the Assumption. He&#8217;s known to be the last of the Greek Fathers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a tree planted by streams of water,&#8217; Ps. 1:3 the soul is irrigated by the Bible and acquires vigor, produces tasty fruit, namely, true faith, and is beautified with a thousand green leaves, namely, actions that please God. (The Damascene) \u00a0 Almighty and eternal God, Who did imbue blessed John with heavenly doctrine and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-john-of-damascus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint John of Damascus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710,31952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29544,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154\/revisions\/29544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}