{"id":7962,"date":"2020-03-08T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2020-02-29T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:55:15","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-wisdom-in-giving-penance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7962","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on Wisdom in Giving Penance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe confessor has the power to bind and to loose. I remembered one of Saint Basil\u2019s Rules, and I took that as my basic guideline and changed my tactics in confession. The Rule says: \u2018He who receives the power to bind and to loose, when he sees the great remorse of one of the sinners, let him reduce the time of the penance. Don\u2019t let him judge the penances in terms of time, but in terms of disposition.\u2019 And so I started to encourage the people to read the poetic canons written in honour of the saints, to read short prayers, to make prostrations and to read Holy Scripture. And in that way they began to pay attention to the things of our religion. Their hearts were softened and without any external prompting they desired to observe the fasts, to enter the spiritual arena and to come to know Christ. And one thing I have understood is that when someone comes to know Christ and love Him and is loved by Christ, everything thereafter proceeds well in holiness\u00a0 and joy and everything is easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7963\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323859.b-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323859.b-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323859.b-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323859.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe confessor has the power to bind and to loose. I remembered one of Saint Basil\u2019s Rules, and I took that as my basic guideline and changed my tactics in [&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-7962","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\/7962","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=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}