{"id":1679,"date":"2016-01-29T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:39:42","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"cduip-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cduip-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Despite appearances and the unworthiness of the monks and clergy, the Church is an endless source of miracles. It takes water and makes it Holy Water; it takes bread and wine and makes the Holy Eucharist; it takes man made of dirt and makes him a god! But many people do not see the miracles. Because if they saw them they would not despise or hate the Church of Christ, but they would love and honor Her and would not be talking about Her with contempt as they do.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"186dn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"186dn-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Paisios, recorded comments)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1680\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos2\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Despite appearances and the unworthiness of the monks and clergy, the Church is an endless source of miracles. It takes water and makes it Holy Water; it takes bread 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","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\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}