{"id":28,"date":"2014-04-28T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-05-06T01:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:17:46","slug":"chastity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Chastity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I \u00a0cannot describe to you how much our Panagia loves chastity and purity. Since she is the only pure Virgin, she wants and loves everyone to be pure like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">Elder Joseph the Hesychast<br \/>\n~ My Elder Joseph the Hesychast<br \/>\n[Elder Ephraim of Arizona adds:&#8221;This is why he fought against the carnal passion more than any other passion.&#8221;]<br \/>\n. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0.<\/p>\n<div>I always emphasize that young people try to live as spiritually as they can before marriage, since preserving their chastity secures their physical and spiritual health. The spiritual life is a basic prerequisite to whatever life one chooses. The world has become like a complete field that is ready for harvest, but swine enter and trample it. So now everything is in disarray&#8230;but here and there on some image, there is an occasional wheat stock standing upright.<\/div>\n<div>Elder Paisios<br \/>\n~ Family Life<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042814.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042814-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"042814\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042814-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042814.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I \u00a0cannot describe to you how much our Panagia loves chastity and purity. Since she is the only pure Virgin, she wants and loves everyone to be pure like that.&#8221; Elder Joseph the Hesychast ~ My Elder Joseph the Hesychast [Elder Ephraim of Arizona adds:&#8221;This is why he fought against the carnal passion more than [&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-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}