{"id":5410,"date":"2018-09-09T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2018-09-09T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T11:53:50","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-venerating-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"Elder St.\u00a0 Paisios on Venerating Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The devout person will especially venerate the holy Icons. And when we say, \u201cHe will venerate the holy Icons\u201d we mean he venerates the person depicted on the Icon. When someone has a picture of his father, his mother, his grandfather or grandmother, his brother, he cannot possibly tear it or step on it. How much more must we venerate the Icons of the Saints. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have no icons. The honor we show to the Icons they consider to be idolatry. I asked one of them once, \u201cDon\u2019t you have photographs in your homes?\u201d \u201cYes, we do,\u201d he said. \u201cWell then, does a mother kiss the photograph of her child, when that child is far away?\u201d \u201cYes, she does,\u201d he said. \u201cDoes she kiss the paper of the photograph or her child?\u201d I asked and he replied, \u201cShe kisses her child.\u201d \u201cWell then, just as she kisses her child when she kisses his photograph, we kiss Christ when we kiss His Icon; we don\u2019t kiss the paper or the wood.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5411\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/279145.b-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/279145.b-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/279145.b-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/279145.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The devout person will especially venerate the holy Icons. And when we say, \u201cHe will venerate the holy Icons\u201d we mean he venerates the person depicted on the Icon. When [&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-5410","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\/5410","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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}