{"id":11593,"date":"2022-08-14T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:25:24","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-gaining-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11593","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Gaining Purity\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heart has to be purified. Man must acquire spiritual chastity; that is, sincerity, honesty, selflessness, humility, goodness, forbearance, sacrifice. This is how man becomes akin to God and how divine Grace comes to dwell in him. When someone has physical chastity but lacks spiritual chastity, God cannot dwell in him because he harbours cunning, pride, evil, and so forth. Then this person\u2019s life is a sham; this is where you must begin your struggle: acquiring spiritual chastity, spiritual purity\u2026, it is the mortal sins which pollute our Baptism, and that\u2019s when divine Grace is distanced from us. Of course, God\u2019s Grace does not abandon man, even as our Guardian Angel does not abandon us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11594\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/11A-UX3-EV8C1159.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart has to be purified. Man must acquire spiritual chastity; that is, sincerity, honesty, selflessness, humility, goodness, forbearance, sacrifice. This is how man becomes akin to God and how [&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-11593","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\/11593","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=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}