{"id":8260,"date":"2020-05-31T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:23:34","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-lack-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8260","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on the Lack of Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c7t63\" data-offset-key=\"9k63n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9k63n-0-0\">The holy monastic fathers of old walked the path of salvation effortlessly, because they sacrificed everything so that they would not fall away from love. Love was their goal in life. Our path, though, is completely strewn with thorns which sprouted because we lack love. And this is why when we walk, we constantly bleed. The foundations of the house shake when we do not lay the foundation of love well.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c7t63\" data-offset-key=\"es64j-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"es64j-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"es64j-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"es64j-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8261\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-23-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-23-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-23-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-23-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-23-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy monastic fathers of old walked the path of salvation effortlessly, because they sacrificed everything so that they would not fall away from love. Love was their goal 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-8260","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\/8260","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=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8262,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}