{"id":11853,"date":"2022-10-30T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2022-10-08T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:41:51","slug":"11853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11853","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on Pentecost\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little further on we read, and fear came upon every soul. This \u2018fear\u2019\u00a0was not exactly fear. It was something else, something alien, something\u00a0incomprehensible, something.. .something we cannot say what. It was\u00a0awe, it was a sense of being filled, it was grace. It was being filled with divine grace. At Pentecost the people suddenly found themselves in\u00a0such a state of assimilation to God that they were overcome with confusion. So when the divine grace overshadowed them it made them all\u00a0mad \u2014 in a good sense \u2014 it enthused them, filled them with God. This\u00a0has made a great impression on me. It was what I sometimes call a\u00a0\u2018state\u2019. It was enthusiasm. A state of spiritual madness.<\/p>\n

And breaking bread in their various homes, they shared food in great joy and simplicity of heart, praising God and having goodwill towards all\u00a0the people. And every day the Lord added to the Church those who were\u00a0being saved.\u00a0 The \u2018breaking of bread\u2019 was Holy Communion. And the number of those who were being saved increased continually, since people saw all\u00a0the Christians in a state of \u2018great joy and simplicity of heart\u2019 and \u2018praising God\u2019. The \u2018great joy and simplicity of heart\u2019 is like the fear came upon every soul . It is an enthusiasm and again a madness.<\/p>\n

– Wounded by Love<\/p>\n

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A little further on we read, and fear came upon every soul. This \u2018fear\u2019\u00a0was not exactly fear. It was something else, something alien, something\u00a0incomprehensible, something.. .something we cannot say what. […]<\/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-11853","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\/11853","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=11853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11856,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions\/11856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}