{"id":37289,"date":"2025-03-30T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=37289"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:06:23","slug":"climbing-the-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/climbing-the-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing the Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 4th Sunday of Lent on the Byzantine liturgical calendar, we remember a great monastic father, St. John Climacus (579-649). He wrote a book called, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWESlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc1sjQizTgKTpaqZjMZTp3ZnE5Kg17S_dpua-bMft8qNZUTfLzyj5GZjcw_aem_76vnqDXP_-l5-1JwT2q5Bw\"><strong>The Ladder of Divine Ascent<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d encouraging his monks to grow in virtue. Various virtues and asdcetical practices are compared to rungs on a ladder. These are good disciplines for us also during the Lenten season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 4th Sunday of Lent on the Byzantine liturgical calendar, we remember a great monastic father, St. John Climacus (579-649). He wrote a book called, \u201cThe Ladder of Divine Ascent,\u201d encouraging his monks to grow in virtue. Various virtues and asdcetical practices are compared to rungs on a ladder. These are good disciplines for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/climbing-the-ladder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climbing the Ladder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[32260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289"}],"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=37289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37291,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions\/37291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}