{"id":573,"date":"2014-10-11T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-10-11T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:29:52","slug":"solitude-and-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Solitude and Strength&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I went through up there for 15 days, struggling with the tempter \u2013 it defies description, you can&#8217;t even imagine! He was constantly telling me to go down to the monastery to see people and visit with them to be consoled. I&#8217;ll tell you one thing: for 15 days, I felt like I was nailed to the Cross. Later on the second Sunday, I came down to the monastery to attend Liturgy. When I communed the Holy Mysteries tasted like meat that was very sweet and I felt strength within me. It was the Body and Blood of Christ.&#8221; Strengthened by this sign, looking out his ascetic cell from the monastery, he said to the devil, &#8220;Come back now if you want to and will do battle. I&#8217;m not afraid of you anymore.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Paisios<br \/>\n~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/185198_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/185198_t.jpg\" alt=\"185198_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I went through up there for 15 days, struggling with the tempter \u2013 it defies description, you can&#8217;t even imagine! He was constantly telling me to go down to the monastery to see people and visit with them to be consoled. I&#8217;ll tell you one thing: for 15 days, I felt like I was [&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-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}