{"id":7772,"date":"2020-01-23T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2020-01-19T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T13:49:04","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-finding-spiritual-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7772","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Finding Spiritual Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who want to live a spiritual life will eventually find that they are not able to do it in this world; they will be searching to find people like themselves, people of God. They\u2019ll want to have a Spiritual Father to guide them and they will distance themselves all the more from sin. And this good is now being achieved by the devil and his evil ways, without him wanting to. So, now we see in the cities and the villages, too, some people running to nightclubs and entertainment centers while others are going to Church for vigils, for supplication prayers, for spiritual gatherings, and these people are united among themselves. In difficult times, a strong fellowship is formed among people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Spiritual Awakening\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7773\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10116-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10116-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10116-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who want to live a spiritual life will eventually find that they are not able to do it in this world; they will be searching to find people like [&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-7772","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\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}