{"id":20674,"date":"2024-06-17T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=20674"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:31:29","slug":"6-18-feast-day-of-st-ephrem-of-syria-traditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=20674","title":{"rendered":"6\/18  Feast Day of St. Ephrem of Syria (Traditional)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/St-Ephrem-the-Syrian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20667\" src=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/St-Ephrem-the-Syrian-289x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/St-Ephrem-the-Syrian-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/St-Ephrem-the-Syrian.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMore fitting to be told, than the glorious account of Paradise, are the exploits of the Victorious who adorned themselves with the very Likeness of Paradise; in them is depicted the Beauty of the Garden.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<span lang=\"EN\">Hymns on Paradise \u2013 St. Ephrem<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Volume 31; Jnauary 22, 1933<\/strong><br \/>\nOur Lord: \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You Must Know<\/span> that your will, while being with you, is weak, insignificant; but as it gets into My Creative and Transforming Hands, it changes appearance; I render it Powerful, I Vivify it and enclose in it the Value-producer of Good, and I make use of it so as not to remain idle; and making Myself the Celestial Gardener, I work in this field of your will, and I make of it a Beautiful flowery field and a Garden of My Delights.\u00a0So, what in your hands is insignificant and maybe even noxious, in Mine it changes its nature and it serves Me to amuse Myself and to have a little soil at My disposal in order to form the Most Beautiful Flowerings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore fitting to be told, than the glorious account of Paradise, are the exploits of the Victorious who adorned themselves with the very Likeness of Paradise; in them is depicted the Beauty of the Garden.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Hymns on Paradise \u2013 St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=20674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20675,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}