{"id":1533,"date":"2013-03-07T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:40:11","slug":"lenten-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #a52a2a;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lentphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543 alignleft\" title=\"lentphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lentphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lentphoto.jpg 500w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lentphoto-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #a52a2a;\"><strong>Week 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lenten spring shines forth,<\/p>\n<p>the flower of repentance!<\/p>\n<p>Let us cleanse ourselves from all evil,<\/p>\n<p>crying out to the Giver of Light:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlory to You, O Lover of man!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a52a2a;\"><strong>Week 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You manifested humility, O Christ,<\/p>\n<p>as the way of genuine nobility<\/p>\n<p>by emptying Yourself and taking the form of a slave.<\/p>\n<p>You did not hear the self-praising prayers of the Pharisee,<\/p>\n<p>but you received the broken sighs of the publican as a blameless sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore I cry out to you:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,<\/p>\n<p>and save me, O Savior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a52a2a;\"><strong>Week 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>O my gracious Savior,<\/p>\n<p>be my Healer and Redeemer,<\/p>\n<p>and cast me not away.<\/p>\n<p>Raise me up when you see me fallen,<\/p>\n<p>lying in sin,<\/p>\n<p>since You are all-powerful,<\/p>\n<p>that I may know your deeds and cry out to You:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I perish completely,<\/p>\n<p>save me, O Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Thomas Hopko,\u00a0<\/em>The Lenten Spring<em>\u00a0(St. Vladimir\u2019s Press, Crestwood, NY, 1983)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Born March 28, 1939, in Endicott, NY, Thomas Hopko is an Orthodox Christian priest and theologian. He was the Dean of Saint Vladimir\u2019s Orthodox Theological Seminary from 1992 until 2002 and taught dogmatic theology there from 1968 until 2002. Now retired, he carries the honorary title of Dean Emeritus.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lenten spring shines forth,<br \/>\nthe flower of repentance!<br \/>\nLet us cleanse ourselves from all evil [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[61,93],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sacristy","category-prayers","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}