{"id":1137,"date":"2026-06-14T02:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/on-the-silence-of-the-monastery-en\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:40:51","slug":"on-the-silence-of-the-monastery-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/on-the-silence-of-the-monastery-en\/","title":{"rendered":"On the silence of the monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every pilgrim who arrives at the Monastery for the first time is astonished by the silence \u2014 not merely the absence of noise, but a kind of gravity that inhabits the courtyard.,Saint Isaac the Syrian writes: \u201cGuard your silence as a treasure, for from it is born prayer.\u201d,It is not the silence of isolation. It is cenobitic \u2014 we chant together, we eat together, we work together. But between the words we leave room, so that the other voice may be heard \u2014 the one the prophet hears at Horeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silence of the monastery is not the absence of words \u2014 it is the presence of listening. A reflection from the cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panagiaglykofilousa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}