{"id":1967,"date":"2016-02-06T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T07:14:30","slug":"more-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/more-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"More On Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I DID not receive any responses to my thoughts on Prayer and the Christian life. However, I wrote an enlarged version and sent it to Boston College for publication. I have since had some thoughts based on replies from friends overseas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From a Cistercian friend:<\/em><\/strong> He sees the life of prayer as a constant relation with God as companion, which seems to mean divine person and absolute love. So, the person praying struggles along with a growing consciousness of God as companion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From a monk at Mount Athos (Greek):<\/em><\/strong> He sees a complimentary relation between liturgical practice and the Jesus Prayer. This prayer aims at filling (all of) life with a sense of God&#8217;s presence. Their liturgy is a robust celebration of <em>He is here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From a Carthusian:<\/em><\/strong> Their life is marked by a twofold sense that He is already here and yet we are not in heaven. Their liturgy moves between lamentation and joy and a monk once told me that the emotional centre of their life is &#8216;joyous sorrow&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I find all these responses most interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I DID not receive any responses to my thoughts on Prayer and the Christian life. However, I wrote an enlarged version and sent it to Boston College for publication. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-messages","tag-prayer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}