{"id":3958,"date":"2017-11-22T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2017-11-22T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:35:08","slug":"counsels-of-st-paisios-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Counsels of St. Paisios"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"781ct\" data-offset-key=\"fpmkc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fpmkc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fpmkc-0-0\">\u201cFasting and ascetic struggle are prerequisites for prayer. But for prayer to be proper and effective one must have compassion for others. For it is a rule of many Christians in our time not to want to have any worries. Even retired people who sit around all day don\u2019t want to approach an abandoned child, for this requires work and effort, which will disturb their serenity.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"781ct\" data-offset-key=\"eemp4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eemp4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eemp4-0-0\">&#8211; Elder St. Paisios in &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"eemp4-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3959\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elderpaisiosa-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elderpaisiosa-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elderpaisiosa-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elderpaisiosa.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFasting and ascetic struggle are prerequisites for prayer. But for prayer to be proper and effective one must have compassion for others. For it is a rule of many Christians [&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-3958","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\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}