{"id":5149,"date":"2018-07-29T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:37:15","slug":"elder-joseph-of-vatopaidi-on-grace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5149","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph+ of Vatopaidi on Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6jiho\" data-offset-key=\"9vul1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9vul1-0-0\">&#8220;Once, St Paul of Thebes was having a conversation with Saint Antony the Great. St Paul asked St Antony: \u2018How come your name is better known than mine, since I have fought more fierce battles than you?\u2019 Obviously their conversation was not so much for their benefit as for ours, when we were going to learn of it later. St Antony teasingly replied: \u2018It is simply because I love the Lord more than you. My name has become better known only because I love the Lord more than you\u2019. Now the mystery has begun to unravel. He who accomplishes more is the one who loves the Lord more and Divine Grace influences him more. This is the key! In practice&#8230;to love the Lord more so that Grace increases in us and assists us in overcoming our despicable ways which hamper our spiritual progress.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6jiho\" data-offset-key=\"bo3md-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bo3md-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bo3md-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018The Practical Expression of Love\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"bo3md-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5150\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/282277.p-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/282277.p-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/282277.p-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/282277.p.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once, St Paul of Thebes was having a conversation with Saint Antony the Great. St Paul asked St Antony: \u2018How come your name is better known than mine, since I [&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-5149","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\/5149","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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}