{"id":113,"date":"2015-08-26T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-08-18T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T00:10:36","slug":"let-st-dominic-teach-you-how-to-pray-a-holy-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/let-st-dominic-teach-you-how-to-pray-a-holy-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Let St Dominic teach you how to pray a holy hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0OuImHsV9CE\/TjDezfso-7I\/AAAAAAAAASQ\/jgy0wHgX1mU\/s400\/St.+Dominic%252C+el+greco.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" \/>A few years ago, a Fr Erlenbush had a blog called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com\/\">New Theological Movement<\/a>\u201d over at Blogspot. He sadly\u00a0had to retire the blog due to the demands of parish life, but he has thankfully left the blog online and running.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One good post he wrote was on the Feast of St. Dominic (well, he wrote it according to the new calendar\u2019s feast day) and how we can let ourselves be <a href=\"http:\/\/newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/let-st-dominic-teach-you-how-to-pray.html\">taught by the founder of the Order of Preachers to pray a holy hour<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Fr Erlenbush covers the nine ways of prayer of St Dominic, but also gives us four particular considerations for making a holy hour \u2013 to humble ourselves, to consider God\u2019s infinite goodness, to offer acts of love to God in restitution for sin, and to contemplate and gaze on God (to do this is a bit harder, though). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If that sounds like a bit too much work, though, consider Father\u2019s closing line the next time you hop in a car on your commute to work or heading out to the bar with your buddies\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Why waste our time listening to music while driving in the car? Rather, we ought to reach for our Rosary and use it well &#8211; recalling that God gifted St. Dominic with great insights during his travels.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, a Fr Erlenbush had a blog called the \u201cNew Theological Movement\u201d over at Blogspot. He sadly\u00a0had to retire the blog due to the demands of parish life, but he has thankfully left the blog online and running. One good post he wrote was on the Feast of St. Dominic (well, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-dominican","category-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-1P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}