{"id":5851,"date":"2018-12-12T12:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2018-12-08T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T01:49:54","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-preparation-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Preparation for Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn other words, they want to let him go without the benefit of Holy Communion, so that he won\u2019t realize he is dying and start to worry? It would be better if they tell him, \u201cHoly Communion is a medicine. It will help you. It is a good thing to receive Holy Communion.\u201d In this way, he receives Holy Communion, is helped, and at the same time, prepares himself for the other life.\u00a0 For those who are having difficulty expiring, the Prayers for the Separation of the Soul from the Body are read by the priest. Holy Unction is offered to all the sick at any time; it is not only offered to those who are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Family Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5852\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mt-athos-Esphigmenou-monastery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mt-athos-Esphigmenou-monastery-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mt-athos-Esphigmenou-monastery-768x575.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mt-athos-Esphigmenou-monastery-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mt-athos-Esphigmenou-monastery.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn other words, they want to let him go without the benefit of Holy Communion, so that he won\u2019t realize he is dying and start to worry? It would be [&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-5851","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\/5851","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=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}