{"id":2792,"date":"2016-12-29T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:25:57","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 I was given another parrot\u2026 It was also wild to begin with just like the first one. In the same way with prayer and gentleness I tamed this one. It started gradually to say various words, to squawk out names, to come out of its cage, to sit on my shoulder and to eat with me.\u2026 Now that we became very good friends it&#8217;s learned not only words and names but it says the prayer: &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me.&#8221; It also says &#8220;O Virgin\u00a0 who brought forth God, Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with you, God is good, and it knows how to sing &#8220;Lord have mercy&#8221; and other things.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St Elder Porphyrios in &#8216;Wounded by Love&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2054\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderPorphpyrios\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/elderPorphpyrios.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 I was given another parrot\u2026 It was also wild to begin with just like the first one. In the same way with prayer and gentleness I tamed this one. [&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-2792","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\/2792","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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}