{"id":979,"date":"2015-02-18T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=979"},"modified":"2015-02-18T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:17:15","slug":"danger-of-being-over-zealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Danger of Being Over-zealous&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">&#8220;Their &#8216;strictness&#8217; forces them to become so involved in church politics that spiritual questions become quite secondary. I know for myself that if I would have to sit down and think out for myself exactly which shade of &#8216;zealotry&#8217; is the &#8216;correct&#8217; one today\u2014I will lose all peace of mind and be constantly preoccupied with questions of breaking communion, of how this will seem to others, of &#8216;What will the Greeks think&#8217; (and which Greeks?), and &#8216;What will the Metropolitan think?&#8217; And I will not have time or inclination to become inspired by the wilderness, by the Holy Fathers, by the marvelous saints of ancient and modern times who lived in a higher world. In our times especially, it is not possible to be entirely detached from these questions, but let us place first things first.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Fr. Seraphim Rose<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">~ Correspondence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/197521_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-980\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/197521_t.jpg\" alt=\"197521_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Their &#8216;strictness&#8217; forces them to become so involved in church politics that spiritual questions become quite secondary. I know for myself that if I would have to sit down and think out for myself exactly which shade of &#8216;zealotry&#8217; is the &#8216;correct&#8217; one today\u2014I will lose all peace of mind and be constantly preoccupied with [&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-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}