{"id":7285,"date":"2019-10-04T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2019-10-04T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:22:06","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-primacy-of-eternity-over-earthly-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on the Primacy of Eternity over Earthly Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In any case, the godparent has a great responsibility. My parents had once promised their friends\u2019 family that someone in our family would baptise one of their children. When that time came, everyone in our family had gone away; so they asked me to be the godfather. I was sixteen years old then and I didn\u2019t want to baptise the child because I was quite aware of the great responsibility I would have to assume. I was in a tough spot, so I prayed for guidance. \u201cMy Lord,\u201d I prayed \u201cif he is destined to become a good person, take all the years from me and give them to him. But if he is to become an evil person, take him now that he is still an angel.\u201d I baptised the child, giving him the name, Paul. He died one week later. He is secure in Heaven now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Family Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7286\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/193366.b-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/193366.b-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/193366.b.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In any case, the godparent has a great responsibility. My parents had once promised their friends\u2019 family that someone in our family would baptise one of their children. When 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-7285","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\/7285","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=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}