{"id":2405,"date":"2016-09-12T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:35:39","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4jtre\" data-offset-key=\"3e48m-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3e48m-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3e48m-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;&#8230;they [Church Fathers] selected just a few words in a single, simple prayer, &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me&#8221; , so that the mind would not require a great effort in order to hold on to a long, protracted prayer. Secondly, they turned the mind within, to the center of our reason, where it resides motionless with the meaning of the divine invocation&#8230;in order to experience as soon as possible the divine consolation.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4jtre\" data-offset-key=\"2jdn8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2jdn8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2jdn8-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Joseph of Vatopedi+, &#8216;Prayer of the Heart&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4jtre\" data-offset-key=\"8a0n8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8a0n8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8a0n8-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4jtre\" data-offset-key=\"3t7pd-0-0\">\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coober-Pedy-Australia.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.orthodoxroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coober-Pedy-Australia.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;they [Church Fathers] selected just a few words in a single, simple prayer, &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me&#8221; , so that the mind would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}