{"id":6398,"date":"2019-04-07T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2019-04-02T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:34:13","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-remembrance-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Remembrance of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"776dm\" data-offset-key=\"5d5t7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5d5t7-0-0\">&#8220;So attend to yourself and do not embitter our God Who is so good for the sake of a small, bitter pleasure. It is Satan\u2019s jealousy, who hates anyone whose spiritual eyes Christ opens. Awaken, my beloved child, and attend to your self, for He sees things that you do not see. Christ Who is full of mercy is trying to open the eyes of your soul. Oh, how good He is! On the other hand, the evil one sees this and is trying to close your eyes with bitter pleasure. So, my child, do not cease crying out the name of Christ. At every breath meditate on His divine name. Even if your mind wanders don\u2019t worry, because this continuous meditation and your constant longing to seek Him will draw Him to come on His own to see you. Then a refreshing spring will gush forth from within your heart crying, \u201cLord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!\u201d And then you will rejoice unceasingly at the voice and sweetness of Christ the Master.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"776dm\" data-offset-key=\"7a8vv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7a8vv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7a8vv-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7a8vv-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6399\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0679-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0679-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0679-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0679-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0679.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So attend to yourself and do not embitter our God Who is so good for the sake of a small, bitter pleasure. It is Satan\u2019s jealousy, who hates anyone whose [&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-6398","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\/6398","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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}