{"id":1711,"date":"2016-02-11T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:34:27","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"8qp6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8qp6-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Learn first of all to be at peace with the spiritual situation which has been given you, and to make the most of it. If your situation is spiritually barren, do not let this discourage you, but work all the harder at what you yourself can do for your spiritual life. It is already something very important to have access to the Sacraments and regular church services. Beyond this you should have regular morning and evening prayers with your family, and spiritual reading\u2014all according to your strength and the possibilities afforded by your circumstances.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"7coo4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7coo4-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Fr Seraphim Rose+ in &#8216;Living Orthodoxy&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"7coo4-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1494\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"SeraphimRose\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SeraphimRose.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Learn first of all to be at peace with the spiritual situation which has been given you, and to make the most of it. If your situation is spiritually barren, [&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-1711","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\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}