{"id":2275,"date":"2013-03-22T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/abba-joseph-related-that-abba\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:10:27","slug":"abba-joseph-related-that-abba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/abba-joseph-related-that-abba\/","title":{"rendered":"Abba Joseph related that Abba Isaac said:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deposition.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Deposition.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"265\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><br \/>\n&#8220;I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and as I was on terms of great freedom of speech with him, I prostrated myself before him and begged him, saying, &#8216;Tell me where you were.&#8217;  He was forced to answer and he said, &#8216;My thought was with Saint Mary, the Mother of God, as she wept by the cross of the Saviour.  I wish I could always weep like that.'&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Come, O Mother, love&#8217;s sweet spring,<br \/>\nLet me share thy sorrowing,<br \/>\nLet my tears unite with thine.<br \/>\nLet my heart be all on fire,<br \/>\nStill to seek with fond desire<br \/>\nChrist, my God, my Love divine.<br \/>\nHoly Mother, this impart,<br \/>\nDeeply print within my heart,<br \/>\nAll the wounds my Saviour bore.<\/em><br \/>\nThe experience of Abba Poemen in the fourth century, like that of the author of the  <em>Stabat Mater<\/em>, the &#8220;queen of sequences&#8221; in the Middle Ages, attests to a sweet and compelling gift of the Holy Spirit to souls in every age: the desire to approach the Blessed Virgin Mary in her sorrows and to avail oneself of the grace of her tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and as I was on terms of great freedom of speech with him, I prostrated myself before him and begged him, saying, &#8216;Tell me where you were.&#8217; He was forced to answer and he said, &#8216;My thought was with Saint Mary, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rosary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-AH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}