{"id":392,"date":"2011-03-11T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:05:41","slug":"392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/392\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>uring Lent, I am reading the Desert Fathers. On occasion I will post sayings that strike me during my Lectio<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Three old men went to Abba Paphnutius to ask a word from him. The old man said to them, “What do you want me to say to you? A spiritual word, or a bodily word?” <\/p>\n

They said, “A spiritual word.” <\/p>\n

The old man said to them, “Go, and choose trials rather than stillness, shame rather than glory, and to give rather than to receive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During Lent, I am reading the Desert Fathers. On occasion I will post sayings that strike me during my Lectio. Three old men went to Abba Paphnutius to ask a word from him. The old man said to them, “What do you want me to say to you? A spiritual word, or a bodily word?” They said, “A spiritual word.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1aGBK-392","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86189,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/an-illation-conundrum\/","url_meta":{"origin":392,"position":0},"title":"An Illation Conundrum","author":"Thom","date":"03 December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow on my Benedictine calendar is something called \"Illation of the Relics of Saint Benedict\". 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