{"id":10144,"date":"2021-08-01T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2021-08-01T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:42:30","slug":"archimandrite-ambrose-yurasov-on-advice-from-the-pochaev-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10144","title":{"rendered":"Archimandrite Ambrose Yurasov on Advice from the Pochaev Elders\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They took it [trials in life] for granted, for the sake of greater holiness. And they reacted to it all like this: \u201cWe deserve this for our sins! We will bear it.\u201d Why do we have diseases? Because we sin over and again in our lives, and when we come to realize that it is bad we repent and no longer sin. But for sins one must be punished, either by temporary suffering on earth or by everlasting suffering in eternity. It is better to suffer temporarily and thank the Lord for this, saying, \u201cGlory to God for everything! This is not enough\u2014I deserve a worse punishment for my sins!\u201d We need to learn to always thank God. It is good for our souls. The Lord is our Father and He loves us. And the Lavra of St. Sergius is a seedbed of elders. Those novices who came to the monastery and were in contact with the fathers acquired this spirit and became like them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10145\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Songzalin_Monastery_main_prayer_hall_kitchen_1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Article in orthochristian.com<\/p>\n<p>**We are pleased to include writings from modern\u00a0\u00a0 Monasteries from time to time as well as our traditional Elders**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They took it [trials in life] for granted, for the sake of greater holiness. And they reacted to it all like this: \u201cWe deserve this for our sins! We will [&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-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10146,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}