{"id":9006,"date":"2020-10-30T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2020-10-24T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T00:48:48","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-30-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9006","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t go backwards in the spiritual life! If you decide to start the Jesus Prayer, you have to choose some time out of the twenty-four hours. It\u2019s acrobatics\u2014get up at night to pray; if that doesn\u2019t work out\u2014at dawn, or in the evening, or in the afternoon\u2014only, it has to be done with the nuances that St. Joseph taught us\u2014sitting in the dark, and so on. It\u2019s very important. Of course, you need a mentor and guidance for this, but such guides exist, thank God. And don\u2019t step back, don\u2019t toss it aside. It\u2019s better to do a little every day than to do a lot just once a week. Consistency is very important. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Archpriest\u00a0 Theodore Gignadze on the teachngs of St. Joseph the Hesychast)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9007\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/333848.b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/333848.b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/333848.b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/333848.b-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/333848.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t go backwards in the spiritual life! If you decide to start the Jesus Prayer, you have to choose some time out of the twenty-four hours. It\u2019s acrobatics\u2014get up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9008,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}