{"id":6656,"date":"2021-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/the-friendship-of-the-word\/blog-post\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:00:00","slug":"the-friendship-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-friendship-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friendship of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the secret of these two parables, the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18: 10-14), and the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32), which dominate the prayers of the Great & Holy Lent? This is a question that keeps coming to me on every Great Lent. I am not complaining about any repetition! God forbid! Who can be fed up of the persistence of the Word? Nevertheless, I like to display my wonder publicly! Both, my wonder and my admiration! A Church who had inherited Holy Scriptures containing endless words, in writing the prayers during a great season, draws their pattern, in more than one of its services, from two parables which, together, do not exceed 37 verses! This is the secret! If a few verses are enough to exhort us, for forty days, to renew our life, what then could befriending a whole Book possibly do to us? In this Lent, the Church is telling us: \u201cto return to God, means to return primarily to His Word\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the secret of these two parables, the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18: 10-14), and the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32), which dominate the prayers of the Great &#038; Holy Lent? This is a question that keeps coming to me on every Great Lent. I am not ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}