{"id":4263,"date":"2018-01-23T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2018-01-22T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T01:52:07","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-giving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4263","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Paisios on Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2tbda\" data-offset-key=\"50a3q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"50a3q-0-0\">&#8220;The more goods people acquire today, the more problems they have. They neither thank God for His benefactions, nor do they take notice of the misfortunes suffered by their fellowmen to offer their charity. They just squander everything they have and don\u2019t give a second thought about the other man who doesn\u2019t have something to eat. Then, how can the Grace of God come to them? Even if one is a family man, he ought to put something aside for charity. He can tell his family that there\u2019s some sick and abandoned person or some poor family out there that needs help. Even if they don\u2019t have money to offer, he can say, \u201cLet\u2019s give them one of our Christian books; we\u2019ve got so many of them.\u201d By giving to those in need, one does well both for himself and for his family.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2tbda\" data-offset-key=\"1ngq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1ngq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1ngq-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Family Life&#8217;<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4264\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w4-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w4-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w4-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The more goods people acquire today, the more problems they have. They neither thank God for His benefactions, nor do they take notice of the misfortunes suffered by their fellowmen [&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-4263","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\/4263","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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}