{"id":1126,"date":"2011-04-19T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:15:23","slug":"a-prayer-for-holy-week-from-st-john-of-the-ladder-c-579-649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2011\/04\/a-prayer-for-holy-week-from-st-john-of-the-ladder-c-579-649.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Holy Week from St. John of the Ladder (c. 579-649)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint John of the Ladder was born in Syria and entered the monastery at the age of sixteen. After the death of his spiritual father, Martyrius John, the saint withdrew to a hermitage, where he lived for some twenty years, studying the lives of the saints. When he was seventy-five, the monks of Sinai persuaded him return to serve as their abbot. Four years later he resigned his charge and returned to his hermitage to prepare for death. His Ladder of Divine Ascent is beloved as a vision of the human struggle to partake of God’s unending Life.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By its very nature, prayer<\/p>\n

avails both our conversation<\/p>\n

and our union with the God.<\/p>\n

Its sure effect is (notice now!) to hold<\/p>\n

the world together. Prayer<\/p>\n

is both the mother and the daughter<\/p>\n

of our tears, and occasions expiation of all sin. It is a bridge<\/p>\n

across temptation and a wall<\/p>\n

against affliction, both a future<\/p>\n

joy and present act, endlessly<\/p>\n

opening to a flood of graces.<\/p>\n

From Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life by Scott Cairns.\u00a0 Available here.<\/a> Thank you, Dr. Cairns, for sharing this with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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