{"id":115,"date":"2022-09-26T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=115"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:25:10","slug":"rb-20","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/chapter\/rb-20\/","title":{"raw":"20. Reverence at Prayer","rendered":"20. Reverence at Prayer"},"content":{"raw":"<a id=\"20.1\"><\/a>When we want to bring anything to the notice of the powerful, we do not presume to do so except with humility and reverence; <sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>so how much more should we with all humility and pure devotion make our prayer to the Lord, the God of all things?\r\n\r\n<sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>We should also realize that we are heard not for our many words but for our purity of heart and tears of compunction. <sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, prayer ought to be short and pure unless perhaps lengthened by the inmost feeling of inspiration from divine grace.\r\n\r\n<sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>In community, however, let the prayer always be short, and at the superior\u2019s signal, let them all rise together.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p><a id=\"20.1\"><\/a>When we want to bring anything to the notice of the powerful, we do not presume to do so except with humility and reverence; <sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>so how much more should we with all humility and pure devotion make our prayer to the Lord, the God of all things?<\/p>\n<p><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>We should also realize that we are heard not for our many words but for our purity of heart and tears of compunction. <sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, prayer ought to be short and pure unless perhaps lengthened by the inmost feeling of inspiration from divine grace.<\/p>\n<p><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>In community, however, let the prayer always be short, and at the superior\u2019s signal, let them all rise together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"menu_order":21,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/115\/revisions\/387"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/115\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}