{"id":2598,"date":"2016-11-20T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:52:13","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"cbvr\" data-offset-key=\"6lf5e-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6lf5e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6lf5e-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;First the name of Christ sanctifies the atmosphere and drives away demons. Second, when a person is praying out loud someone else will not easily begin talking idly with him\u2026Third, it hinders the mind from wandering which is idle talk of the mind; for even if our mind wanders the sound of your voice will bring it back quickly. Fourth, when another brother nearby who might be daydreaming are speaking idly hears you praying the prayer he might regain his composure and say to himself &#8220;My brother is praying but what am I doing?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"cbvr\" data-offset-key=\"1oup4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1oup4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1oup4-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Ephraim of Arizona &#8216;My Elder Joseph&#8221; on praying out loud)<\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2045\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderJoseph\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderJoseph-768x925.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderJoseph-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderJoseph.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First the name of Christ sanctifies the atmosphere and drives away demons. Second, when a person is praying out loud someone else will not easily begin talking idly with him\u2026Third, [&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-2598","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\/2598","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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}