{"id":4170,"date":"2018-01-03T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T22:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2018-01-01T07:19:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T12:19:48","slug":"st-paisios-on-the-power-of-the-theotokos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"St. Paisios on the Power of the Theotokos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b292h\" data-offset-key=\"5snu7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5snu7-0-0\">\u201cI\u2019ve met morally depraved men with a \u201ccarnal mindedness\u201d who married pious Orthodox women leading a spiritual way of life. These husbands so clearly perceived their wives\u2019 spiritual purity that they did not dare to come near them and have marital relations. As a result, they even thought of divorcing. If these simple women made such an influence on their unchaste spouses, then how impossibly difficult it is to describe the immeasurably greater and indelible impression that our Lady the Most-Holy Theotokos makes on others.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b292h\" data-offset-key=\"6cjr1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6cjr1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6cjr1-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018St. Paisios the Hagiorite\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"6cjr1-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4171\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/simonos-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/simonos-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/simonos-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/simonos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/simonos-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve met morally depraved men with a \u201ccarnal mindedness\u201d who married pious Orthodox women leading a spiritual way of life. These husbands so clearly perceived their wives\u2019 spiritual purity that [&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-4170","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\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}