{"id":5794,"date":"2018-11-28T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:33:19","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-the-need-for-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on the Need for Vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBe mindful always of God. That is how our mind will acquire agility. Agility of mind comes from vigilance. Vigilance is passionate love for God. It is always having your heart and mind focused on Christ, even if you are engaged in other tasks. Vigilance requires love and yearning for Christ. You will acquire remembrance of God through the prayer \u2018Lord Jesus Christ&#8230;through the prayers of the Church, through the hymns and through bringing to mind the acts of God and recalling passages from Holy Scripture and from other spiritual books. This, of course, all requires good intention. It can\u2019t be done by force and comes about primarily through divine grace. But divine grace requires in turn its preconditions: love and humility.\u00a0 If you live in the embrace of divine grace, evil will not harm you. If you do not live with divinity, evil will encircle you and you will be overtaken by indolence and you will be afflicted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250127.b-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250127.b-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250127.b-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250127.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBe mindful always of God. That is how our mind will acquire agility. Agility of mind comes from vigilance. Vigilance is passionate love for God. It is always having your [&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-5794","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\/5794","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=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}