{"id":1896,"date":"2016-04-06T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2016-03-29T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:49:04","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16q1p\" data-offset-key=\"cuh7g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cuh7g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cuh7g-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;By the presence of the Jesus Prayer man is not given over to temptation which he is expecting, because its presence is sober watchfulness and its essence is prayer; therefore &#8220;the one who watches and prays does not enter into temptation.&#8221; {cf. Matt. 26:41} Further, he is not given over to darkness of mind so as to become irrational and err in his judgments and decisions. He does not fall into indolence and negligence which are the basis of many evils. Moreover, he is not overcome by passions and indulgences where he is weak, and particularly when the causes of sin are near at hand. On the contrary his zeal and devotion increase. He becomes eager for good works. He becomes meek and forgiving. He grows from day to day in his faith and love for Christ and this inflames him towards all the virtues. We have many examples in our own day of people, and particularly of young people, who with the good habit of doing the prayer have been saved from frightful dangers, from falls into great evils, or from symptoms leading toward spiritual death.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16q1p\" data-offset-key=\"897co-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"897co-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"897co-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Joseph of Vatopedi on the Jesus Prayer&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16q1p\" data-offset-key=\"2vfqh-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16q1p\" data-offset-key=\"2vfqh-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/josephofvatopedi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1897\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/josephofvatopedi-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"josephofvatopedi\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/josephofvatopedi-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/josephofvatopedi.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By the presence of the Jesus Prayer man is not given over to temptation which he is expecting, because its presence is sober watchfulness and its essence is prayer; therefore [&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-1896","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\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}