{"id":7968,"date":"2020-03-15T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2020-03-06T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T01:38:08","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-intercession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios\u00a0 on Intercession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say he learns of an accident and sighs, and, inthat moment, God gives him divine consolation for his compassionate sigh. He sees someone who is hurting, and immediately feels compassion, and is thus consoled by God with divine consolation; he doesn\u2019t remain with that initial bitterness over the accident. The other person is helped through his prayer. Or he may think to himself, \u201cGod has given us so many blessings; what have I done for God?\u201d I was impressed by what one soul said to me. \u201cThe Angels cover their faces when the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist is being celebrated, while we commune with the Body and Blood of Christ. What have I done l for Christ?\u201d He suffers in a good sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Spiritual Awakening\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7969\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323860.b-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323860.b-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323860.b-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/323860.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say he learns of an accident and sighs, and, inthat moment, God gives him divine consolation for his compassionate sigh. He sees someone who is hurting, and immediately feels [&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-7968","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\/7968","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=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}