{"id":6910,"date":"2019-07-18T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:38:51","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-pain-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6910","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on the \u2018Pain\u2019 of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReal prayer begins from pain; it is not a pleasant experience, a \u2018nirvana\u2019. What kind of pain is it? One is troubled in the good sense of the term. He feels pain, he groans, he suffers when praying for anything whatsoever. Do you know what it means to suffer? Yes, he suffers. Because he is participating in everyone\u2019s pain or in the pain of one particular person. This participation, this pain, is rewarded by God with divine exultation. Of course. he doesn\u2019t ask for this exultation, but it comes as a consequence, because he participates in the pain of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Spiritual Awakening\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6911\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/z4-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/z4-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/z4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReal prayer begins from pain; it is not a pleasant experience, a \u2018nirvana\u2019. What kind of pain is it? One is troubled in the good sense of the term. He [&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-6910","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\/6910","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=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}