{"id":4441,"date":"2018-02-27T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2018-02-12T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:53:14","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-meekness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4441","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Meekness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjaaa\" data-offset-key=\"329q7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"329q7-0-0\">&#8220;Good deeds and almsgiving and all other external good things do not subdue the haughtiness of one\u2019s heart. But mental work, the pain of repentance, contrition, and humility are what humble the unsubmissive spirit. An insubordinate person is unbearable and toilsome to deal with. Only with utter patience can he be handled. Only with utter patience on behalf of the elders and with the forbearance and love of the brethren can stiff-necked disciples come to their senses. But behold: many times they, too, are as useful as your right hand. Almost always such people, who are in some way more gifted than the others, humble themselves with difficulty. They think highly of themselves and look down on others. So a great deal of hard work and patience are needed until this old foundation of pride is dug up, and another foundation is set with Christ\u2019s humility and obedience. But the Lord, seeing their efforts and good intentions, allows another trial to come upon them which counteracts their passion, and by His mercy, He \u201cWho will have all men to be saved\u201d1 saves them too.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fjaaa\" data-offset-key=\"e9cgu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e9cgu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e9cgu-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Monastic Wisdom&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e9cgu-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4442\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ElderJoseph-768x925.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ElderJoseph-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ElderJoseph.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Good deeds and almsgiving and all other external good things do not subdue the haughtiness of one\u2019s heart. But mental work, the pain of repentance, contrition, and humility are what [&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-4441","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\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}