{"id":89,"date":"2010-02-17T05:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:10:12","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-beginning-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/a-prayer-for-the-beginning-of-lent","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Beginning of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90 alignleft\" title=\"The Return of the Prodigal Son\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Return of the Prodigal Son\" width=\"170\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson-831x1024.jpg 831w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O my all-merciful God and Lord,<br \/>\nJesus Christ, full of pity:<br \/>\nThrough Your great love You came down<br \/>\nand became incarnate in order to save everyone.<br \/>\nO Savior, I ask You to save me by Your grace!<br \/>\nIf You save anyone because of their works,<br \/>\nthat would not be grace but only reward of duty,<br \/>\nbut You are compassionate and full of mercy!<br \/>\nYou said, O my Christ,<br \/>\n&#8220;Whoever believes in Me shall live and never die.&#8221;<br \/>\nIf then, faith in You saves the lost, then save me,<br \/>\nO my God and Creator, for I believe.<br \/>\nLet faith and not my unworthy works be counted to me, O my God,<br \/>\nfor You will find no works which could account me righteous.<br \/>\nO Lord, from now on let me love You as intensely as I have loved sin,<br \/>\nand work for You as hard as I once worked for the evil one.<br \/>\nI promise that I will work to do Your will,<br \/>\nmy Lord and God, Jesus Christ, all the days of my life and forever more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prayer of St. John Chrysostom from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchyear.net\/ashwedprayers.html\">Churchyear.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O my all-merciful God and Lord, Jesus Christ, full of pity: Through Your great love You came down and became incarnate in order to save everyone. O Savior, I ask You to save me by Your grace! If You save anyone because of their works, that would not be grace but only reward of duty, but You are compassionate and full of mercy! You said, O my Christ, &#8220;Whoever believes in Me shall live and never die.&#8221; If then, faith in You saves the lost, then save me,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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}},"categories":[56,10],"tags":[108,140],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer","category-spirituality","tag-lent","tag-st-john-chrysostom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/prodigalson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}