{"id":4538,"date":"2018-03-18T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:32:20","slug":"elder-epiphanios-on-the-neglect-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Elder Epiphanios on the Neglect of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"145kn\" data-offset-key=\"a1pqb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a1pqb-0-0\">\u201cA working couple once asked him, \u2018Elder, when at night we return very tired to our home, we don\u2019t have the desire for prayer.\u2019 [The Elder replied] How do you have the desire to eat? Just as you don\u2019t neglect food, no matter how tired you are, all the more so &#8212; and even more so &#8211;you should never neglect the food of the soul: communicating with God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"145kn\" data-offset-key=\"d9h1d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d9h1d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d9h1d-0-0\"> Don\u2019t ever neglect prayer. At the table, in the morning, in the evening, at night. Especially, don\u2019t neglect Compline for any reason, no matter how occupied and tired you are. It is a matter of self-sacrifice and mainly of love. When a certain person, beloved by you, calls you up very late at night, how is it that despite your tiredness, you hook yourselves to the receiver and, furthermore, sometimes one and two hours, without being impatient, but, on the contrary, you rejoice?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"145kn\" data-offset-key=\"1s1ln-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1s1ln-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1s1ln-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Counsels for Life\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1s1ln-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4539\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v2-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA working couple once asked him, \u2018Elder, when at night we return very tired to our home, we don\u2019t have the desire for prayer.\u2019 [The Elder replied] How do you [&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-4538","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\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}