{"id":1672,"date":"2016-01-20T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:20:37","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After the resurrection we shall receive this earthen vessel \u2013 our body \u2013 once again. But then it will no longer be heavy and burdensome, sensual and sluggish but entirely changed by the starry gleam of our sweetest Jesus; it will shine rays brighter than the sun enlightening even the ether. These sufferings here are small in comparison to the future compensation.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Joseph the Hesychast in &#8220;Monastic Widom&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderJoseph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1482\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderJoseph\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg 249w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderJoseph-850x1024.jpg 850w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderJoseph.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After the resurrection we shall receive this earthen vessel \u2013 our body \u2013 once again. But then it will no longer be heavy and burdensome, sensual and sluggish but entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}