{"id":4213,"date":"2018-01-12T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:24:19","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-nurturing-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Nurturing the Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"djt5p\" data-offset-key=\"6lc8i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6lc8i-0-0\">\u201cWhy I want you to devote yourselves more to the study of the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"djt5p\" data-offset-key=\"31ot3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"31ot3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"31ot3-0-0\">Old and New Testament and to the hymns and poetic canons. Read the Church Fathers with the same zeal that you would read the hymns and the poetic canons, but first of all read Holy Scripture. Read the Gospel and the Old Testament. This is the treasure-house, because all the Fathers drew on this wealth. It is the source and the foundation. It is inexhaustible and you can never weary of it. You will undoubtedly feel too what the Psalmist says: Your words are above honey to my mouth. He doesn\u2019t say \u2018like honey\u2019, but \u2018above honey to my mouth\u2019, in order to indicate the exceptional sweetness of the words of God.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"djt5p\" data-offset-key=\"4p76g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4p76g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4p76g-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Wounded by Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"4p76g-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4214\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/t-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/t-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/t-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/t.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy I want you to devote yourselves more to the study of the Old and New Testament and to the hymns and poetic canons. Read the Church Fathers with the [&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-4213","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\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}