{"id":15502,"date":"2025-06-28T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:28:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-28-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first lesson is to say the prayer orally and indeed, as much as we can, clearly and quickly. However, be careful. As we\u2019re saying the prayer, Satan comes and bombards our minds with a whole lot of thoughts and fantasies. When the beginner says the prayer with the mind, Satan\u2019s bombarding drowns out the prayer. If, however, you say it verbally and quickly, Satan can\u2019t easily distract you from the prayer with a host of thoughts. No matter how much the mind forsakes the meaning of the prayer, we have the ear. The ear hears what the mouth is saying, whether it likes it or not.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Haralambos in &#8216;Teacher of Noetic Prayer&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15503\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/116k-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/116k-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/116k-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/116k-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/116k.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first lesson is to say the prayer orally and indeed, as much as we can, clearly and quickly. However, be careful. As we\u2019re saying the prayer, Satan comes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","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=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}