{"id":1713,"date":"2016-02-14T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:38:29","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"fo9s3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fo9s3-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u201cThe most important thing in the spiritual life is to strive to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. It changes our lives (above all inwardly, not outwardly). We will live in the same house, in the same circumstances, and with the same people, but our life will already be different. But this is possible only under certain conditions: if we find the time to pray fervently, with tears in our eyes. From the morning to ask for God\u2019s blessing, that a prayerful attitude may define our entire day.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"34il3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"34il3-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov, recorded comments)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1437\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0.jpg 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe most important thing in the spiritual life is to strive to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. It changes our lives (above all inwardly, not outwardly). 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-1713","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\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}