{"id":171,"date":"2014-06-11T00:44:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-06-11T00:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:44:30","slug":"spiritual-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Examination&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his vigil he would also do his spiritual accounting. &#8220;A monk who wants to make progress,&#8221; he taught, &#8220;must do accounting daily \u2013 \u2013 just as a merchant does at the end of every day to see how much he has gained and how much he has lost. Every evening a monk should examine his conduct to see where he progressed and where he stumbled so that he can make a new beginning of repentance and correction.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Joseph the Hesychast<br \/>\n~My Elder Joseph<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/151206_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/151206_t.jpg\" alt=\"151206_t\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his vigil he would also do his spiritual accounting. &#8220;A monk who wants to make progress,&#8221; he taught, &#8220;must do accounting daily \u2013 \u2013 just as a merchant does at the end of every day to see how much he has gained and how much he has lost. Every evening a monk should examine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}