{"id":25006,"date":"2009-10-17T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/prayer-is-our-nature\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T18:25:23","slug":"prayer-is-our-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/prayer-is-our-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer is our nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Prayer is more essential to us, more <i>an integral part of<br \/>\nourselves<\/i>, than the rhythm of our breathing or the beating of our heart.<br \/>\nWithout prayer there is no life. <b>Prayer is our nature<\/b>. As humans we are created<br \/>\nfor prayer just as we are created to speak and to think. The human animal is<br \/>\nbest described, not as a logical or tool-making animal or an animal that<br \/>\nlaughs, but rather <i>as an animal that prays<\/i>, <b>a eucharistic animal<\/b>, capable of<br \/>\noffering the world back to God in thanksgiving and intercession. (Bishop Kallistos Ware)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer is more essential to us, more an integral part of ourselves, than the rhythm of our breathing or the beating of our heart. Without prayer there is no life. Prayer is our nature. As humans we are created for prayer just as we are created to speak and to think. The human animal is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/prayer-is-our-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayer is our nature<\/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":[32],"tags":[2217,1791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25006"}],"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=25006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}