{"id":4029,"date":"2017-12-07T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2017-12-07T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:00:04","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6tpfn\" data-offset-key=\"5ndud-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5ndud-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5ndud-0-0\">&#8220;Choose physical exhaustion. Make this an aim in order for body and soul to be exercised. Our life depends on our will. We can experience whatever and however we want. The person who makes greater effort for Christ \u2014 something which of course is a product of divine eros \u2014 attracts more grace. And when we say effort, we mean, apart from everything else, prayer during the night. It is of great benefit to get up during the night for prayer. Prayer at night is best.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6tpfn\" data-offset-key=\"ct83r-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ct83r-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ct83r-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Wounded by Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"ct83r-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4030\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/simonospetros-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/simonospetros-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/simonospetros-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/simonospetros.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Choose physical exhaustion. Make this an aim in order for body and soul to be exercised. Our life depends on our will. We can experience whatever and however we want. [&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-4029","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\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}