{"id":2285,"date":"2016-07-25T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2016-07-24T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T13:03:18","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fubtm\" data-offset-key=\"3k8i9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3k8i9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3k8i9-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t concern me how long I will live or whether I will live. That is something I have left to God&#8217;s love. It often happens that you don&#8217;t want to remember death. It&#8217;s because you desire life. That, from one point of view, is proof of the immortality of the soul. But whether we live or whether we die we are the Lord&#8217;s. Death is a bridge which will lead us to Christ. As soon as we close our eyes he will open them on eternity. We will appear before Christ. In the next life we will experience the grace of God more intensely.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fubtm\" data-offset-key=\"be9nd-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"be9nd-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"be9nd-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St Elder Porphyrios in &#8216;Wounded by Love&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"be9nd-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2055\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyriosicon-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderPorphpyriosicon\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyriosicon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyriosicon.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t concern me how long I will live or whether I will live. That is something I have left to God&#8217;s love. It often happens that you don&#8217;t want [&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-2285","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\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}