{"id":25345,"date":"2010-02-19T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/practice-prayer-itll-be-the-be\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:30:33","slug":"practice-prayer-itll-be-the-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/practice-prayer-itll-be-the-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice prayer &#8230; it&#8217;ll be the best thing you&#8217;ve ever done (as least lately)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Practice prayer from the beginning. Paint your house<br \/>\nwith the colors of modesty and humility. Make it radiant with the light of<br \/>\njustice. Decorate it with the finest gold leaf of good deeds. Adorn it with the<br \/>\nwalls and stones of faith and generosity. Crown it with the pinnacle of prayer.<br \/>\nIn this way, you will make it a perfect dwelling place for the Lord. You will<br \/>\nbe able to receive him as in a splendid palace, and through His grace you will<br \/>\nalready possess Him, His image enthroned in the temple of your spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman', helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Saint John<br \/>\nChrysostom, homily read at Office of Readings, Friday after Ash Wednesday<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice prayer from the beginning. Paint your house with the colors of modesty and humility. Make it radiant with the light of justice. Decorate it with the finest gold leaf of good deeds. Adorn it with the walls and stones of faith and generosity. Crown it with the pinnacle of prayer. In this way, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/practice-prayer-itll-be-the-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practice prayer &#8230; it&#8217;ll be the best thing you&#8217;ve ever done (as least lately)<\/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":[60,32],"tags":[1953,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345"}],"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=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}