{"id":4041,"date":"2017-12-14T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2017-12-09T20:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T01:39:59","slug":"elder-joseph-on-fighting-the-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph on Fighting the Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82qt5\" data-offset-key=\"6hrks-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6hrks-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6hrks-0-0\">Be careful and don\u2019t trust yourself even if you think they have left. The prayers of your elders drive them away tern porarily, but they will come back again. Grace restrains them so that the soul takes courage, but once more they will return. However, in times of peace don\u2019t be negligent, but pray, correct yourself, prepare yourself for war. Give yourself courage. Be patient. Have perfect obedience. In this manner, you will certainly be delivered from them some day. But il requires a great struggle and much caution.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82qt5\" data-offset-key=\"b7fq9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b7fq9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b7fq9-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82qt5\" data-offset-key=\"3ejpc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3ejpc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3ejpc-0-0\">For every step forward that a monk [or anyone] takes, he must shed many tears, drops of blood, and spend much time. Then the devil comes, the primeval evil, gets a crowbar under him and turns everything upside-down, if grace and the prayers of others do not act in time. And then, back to square one again\u2014bloodshed once again. Therefore, it takes patience. Don\u2019t be despondent. Don\u2019t be fainthearted. Be patient so that grace may protect you.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82qt5\" data-offset-key=\"bscsh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bscsh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bscsh-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Monastic WIsdom&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"bscsh-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4042\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/w3-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/w3-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/w3-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/w3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful and don\u2019t trust yourself even if you think they have left. The prayers of your elders drive them away tern porarily, but they will come back again. Grace [&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-4041","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\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}