{"id":7296,"date":"2019-10-13T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2019-10-04T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T00:31:13","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-importance-of-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on the Importance of Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once there was a monk on Mount Athos who was from a Bulgarian village where a lot of people weren\u2019t baptised. He told me that when he was still a layman and hadn\u2019t been baptised yet, he dreamt that he saw his little nephew, who had died a short time before, standing outside of a very beautiful garden and crying. There were a lot of children inside this garden, playing happily. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go inside too?\u201d he asked his nephew. \u201cHow can I go inside? I\u2019m not baptised,\u201d he responded. After having that dream, he went immediately to get baptised and then related his dream to the priest. This is how God arranged for everyone to realise the value of Baptism. Following this event, the villagers started baptising their children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Family Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7297\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3171-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3171-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3171-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3171.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once there was a monk on Mount Athos who was from a Bulgarian village where a lot of people weren\u2019t baptised. He told me that when he was still a [&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-7296","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\/7296","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=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}