{"id":991,"date":"2015-02-21T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=991"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:13:30","slug":"compunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Compunction&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seeing so many buildings and so many needs he [an administrator on Athos] pleaded with the Elder to accept a grant from the administration for the necessary renovation work. The Elder however would not accept by any means. Greatly curious the administrator asked: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you agree, Elder?&#8221; &#8216;I earn money with my sweat. Do you see the monks of my brotherhood? Of these one paints icons, another carves prosphora seals, another works in the field. I also get sent money from outside the Holy Mountain for liturgies, 40 day liturgies, memorial services, paraklisis. That money is blessed because it can be justified. However I can&#8217;t justify your money.&#8217; &#8220;So be it. I will also give you names to commemorate and leave you some money to fix the big water tank that has got holes in it. Do we agree?&#8221; &#8216;We agree.'&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Haralambos<br \/>\n~Abbot Haralombos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/194692_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/194692_t.jpg\" alt=\"194692_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seeing so many buildings and so many needs he [an administrator on Athos] pleaded with the Elder to accept a grant from the administration for the necessary renovation work. The Elder however would not accept by any means. Greatly curious the administrator asked: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you agree, Elder?&#8221; &#8216;I earn money with my sweat. Do [&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-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}