{"id":4715,"date":"2026-11-08T19:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/prayers\/prayer-ephrem\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:26","slug":"prayer-ephrem","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/prayers\/prayer-ephrem\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despondency, lust for power and idle talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">Prostration.<\/p>\n<p>Grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to <span class=\"pr-t\">Thy<\/span><span class=\"pr-y\">Your<\/span> servant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">Prostration.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to judge my brother, for blessed <span class=\"pr-t\">art<\/span><span class=\"pr-y\">are<\/span> <span class=\"pr-t\">Thou<\/span><span class=\"pr-y\">You<\/span> unto ages of ages. Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">Prostration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">Then twelve bows from the waist, each with the words \u00abO God, cleanse me a sinner,\u00bb and the whole prayer once more, with a final prostration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great prayer of Lent, said with prostrations at every weekday service of the Fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","liturgical_season":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4715","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"liturgical_season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/liturgical_season?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}