{"id":6268,"date":"2019-03-17T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2019-03-02T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:49:25","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-grace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6268","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo whatever good thing a person thinks, it is due to the grace \u00a0And now, if you exert yourself in the prayer and pray continuously, if you read lives of saints and toil a little at night, you will quickly obtain what you seek, and your little mil will rejoice that Christ loves you so much. He is Love. \u00a0He seeks love from us. It is when we love our neighbor that we show that we love Christ, too.<\/p>\n<p>So exert yourself as much as you can, and I pray that you mil quickly obtain Him Whom you desire. So whatever good thing a person thinks, it is due to the grace&#8230;period. And now, if you exert yourself in the prayer and pray continuously, if you read lives of saints and toil a little at night, you will quickly obtain what you seek, and your little soul will rejoice that Christ loves you so much. He is Love and He seeks love from us. It is when we love our neighbor that we show that we love Christ, too. So exert yourself as much as you can, and I pray that you will quickly obtain Him Whom you desire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6269\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cathedral-of-St-Sava-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cathedral-of-St-Sava-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cathedral-of-St-Sava-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cathedral-of-St-Sava.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo whatever good thing a person thinks, it is due to the grace \u00a0And now, if you exert yourself in the prayer and pray continuously, if you read lives of [&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-6268","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\/6268","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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}