{"id":8116,"date":"2020-04-12T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2020-04-05T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:46:10","slug":"elder-st-joseph-the-hesychast-on-self-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Joseph the Hesychast on Self-Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou will not fix the Church or the world. Whereas you will be corrected, perfected, and enlightened so as to enlighten those who are willing. Only a war will fix the world, which probably has already come, or is coming at a gallop.\u00a0 Misfortune will bring many people to their senses, whereas \u00a0the unrepentant will have no excuse.\u00a0 \u00a0Remember, my son, that although you were formed out of clay, you are the breath of God. Do not disregard your worth and do not be engrossed in material things. You are the breath of God; force yourself to become worthy of God\u2019s gift. Rejoice and delight in the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8117\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/card-with-women-on-athos-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/card-with-women-on-athos-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/card-with-women-on-athos-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x658.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/card-with-women-on-athos-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou will not fix the Church or the world. Whereas you will be corrected, perfected, and enlightened so as to enlighten those who are willing. Only a war will fix [&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-8116","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\/8116","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=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}