{"id":315,"date":"2014-07-24T00:38:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=315"},"modified":"2014-07-24T00:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:38:25","slug":"value-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Value of Work&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The elder greatly valued blessed labor. No one has ever become wholly without effort and struggle. God is moved by it. &#8220;The present generation,&#8221; he concluded, &#8220;has a laziness gets brought into the monastic life, to. We want to become wholly without effort. Wouldn&#8217;t it be better,&#8221; jokes the elder, &#8220;to do vigils while lying in bed, to get a tape player to play whatever chance you wanted? To make an ascetic out of straw with a motor who can do our prostrations and say the Jesus prayer on the prayer rope?&#8221;&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Paisios<br \/>\n~Elder Paisios of Mt Athos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/180819_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/180819_t.jpg\" alt=\"180819_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The elder greatly valued blessed labor. No one has ever become wholly without effort and struggle. God is moved by it. &#8220;The present generation,&#8221; he concluded, &#8220;has a laziness gets brought into the monastic life, to. We want to become wholly without effort. Wouldn&#8217;t it be better,&#8221; jokes the elder, &#8220;to do vigils while lying [&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-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}