{"id":2198,"date":"2016-07-01T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2016-06-26T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:03:14","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Press forward you who are doubtful, you who are despondent, you distressed, you in ignorance, you of little faith, and you who are suffering trials of various kinds; forward to consolation and to the solution to your problems. Our sweet Jesus Christ, our Life, has proclaimed to us that &#8221; without Me you can do nothing.&#8221; {Jn. 15:5} Thus behold that, calling upon Him continuously, we are never alone; and consequently &#8221; we can and will do all things through Him.&#8221; {cf Phil. 4:13 Behold the correct meaning and application of the significant saying of the Scripture, &#8221; Call upon Me in your day of trouble and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.&#8221; {Ps. 49(50):15}.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Joseph of Vatopedi+, &#8216;Prayer of the Heart&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1605\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elderjoseph_ofvatopedi-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderjoseph_ofvatopedi\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elderjoseph_ofvatopedi-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elderjoseph_ofvatopedi.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Press forward you who are doubtful, you who are despondent, you distressed, you in ignorance, you of little faith, and you who are suffering trials of various kinds; forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}