{"id":2594,"date":"2016-11-08T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:44:44","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Truly, we are far more in need today of a return to the sources of genuine Orthodoxy than Blessed Paisius was! Our situation is hopeless! And yet God&#8217;s mercy does not leave us, and even today one may say that there is a movement of genuine Orthodoxy, which consciously rejects the indifference, renovationism, and outright apostasy which are preached by the world-famous Orthodox theologians and hierarchs, and also hungers for more than the customary Orthodoxy which is powerless before the onslaughts of a world refined in destroying souls.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Fr Seraphim Rose &#8216;Introduction to Blessed Paisius&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2065\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"SeraphimRose\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SeraphimRose-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SeraphimRose-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SeraphimRose.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Truly, we are far more in need today of a return to the sources of genuine Orthodoxy than Blessed Paisius was! Our situation is hopeless! And yet God&#8217;s mercy does [&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-2594","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\/2594","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=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}