{"id":277,"date":"2026-07-07T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:52:50","slug":"gethsemane-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Gethsemane 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wake to the sound of the 3:15 a.m. bells \u2013&nbsp; splash water on my face \u2013 brush my <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">teeth and quickly run off to the chapel for morning vigils where the saints and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">angels make their first prayers of the new day &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the darkness I can not read the psalms in my hands but I remember them in my heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watch as the old monks come to prayer one by one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monks with crooked backs and necks from the labors of their devotion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A drop of holy water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quick sign of the cross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To sit to stand to kneel to beg to plead &#8211; to be thankful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To wake into the arms of God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Into the pattern that has been their lives -over and again since they left their mothers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">after the war in exchange for only Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wake to the sound of the 3:15 a.m. bells \u2013&nbsp; splash water on my face \u2013 brush my teeth and quickly run off to the chapel for morning vigils where the saints and angels make their first prayers of the new day &#8211; In the darkness I can not read the psalms in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}