{"id":1868,"date":"2016-03-29T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:34:16","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quite often, people begin with good intentions, but look where they may find themselves! This was the case with the \u201cicon-worshippers\u201d and the \u201ciconoclasts\u201d of the past: both cases were extremes!\u00a0 The former had reached the point of scraping off icons of Christ and placing the scrapings into the Holy Chalice in order to \u201cimprove\u201d Holy Communion; the latter, on the other hand, burnt and totally discarded all icons. That is why the Church was obliged to place the icons in higher places, out of reach, and, when the dispute was over, lowered them so that we can venerate them and thus confer the appropriate honor to the persons portrayed therein\u2026.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos,\u00a0 Fr. Luke Hartung translation)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1765\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elderpaisiosicon2\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quite often, people begin with good intentions, but look where they may find themselves! This was the case with the \u201cicon-worshippers\u201d and the \u201ciconoclasts\u201d of the past: both cases were [&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-1868","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\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}