{"id":148001,"date":"2026-05-24T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=148001"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:56:36","slug":"elder-paisios-of-mount-athos-spiritual-counsels-v-passions-and-virtues-copy","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/product\/elder-paisios-of-mount-athos-spiritual-counsels-v-passions-and-virtues-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Counsels VI : On Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: 'Market Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ON P<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">RAYER is the the sixth and most recent volume translated into English of the series of St. Paisios\u2019 counsels to his spiritual children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: 'Market Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For Elder Paisios, prayer is the immeasurable potential\u00a0<\/span>which God has given us in order to communicate with Him, and ask for His help. The Elder actually felt pain when he observed people suffering as they struggled \u201cwith their limited human capabilities,\u201d when they could have asked for help from God, Who \u201cwould have sent not simply divine help, but a whole variety of divine assistance; and then, of course, His help would not be called simply divine help, but a miracle of God.\u201d It was why he had insisted that we understand prayer to be a necessity and honestly sought to help those who had not learned to pray \u201cto make a start in order to get their heart working on prayer.\u201d He also strengthened those who had acquired the good habit of praying to pray with even more\u00a0<i>philotimo<\/i>\u00a0and great fervour. To everyone, however, he emphasised repentance and humility as the main prerequisites for communication with God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: 'Market Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">These pages make the wisdom of this Orthodox Elder come alive to readers who can practically apply them to day to day life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: 'Market Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">SOFT COVER 23cm X 15cm, 323 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON PRAYER is the the sixth and most recent volume translated into English of the series of St. Paisios\u2019 counsels to his spiritual children.\u00a0 For Elder Paisios, prayer is the immeasurable potential\u00a0which God has given us in order to communicate with Him, and ask for His help. The Elder actually felt pain when he observed people suffering as they struggled \u201cwith their limited human capabilities,\u201d when they could have asked for help from God, Who \u201cwould have sent not simply divine help, but a whole variety of divine assistance; and then, of course, His help would not be called simply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":148003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"etheme_brands":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2567,2483,2315],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-148001","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-social-issues-anglikoi-titloi","product_cat-anglikoi-titloi","product_cat-orthodoxi-vivliothiki","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/148001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/148001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148006,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/148001\/revisions\/148006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etheme_brands?post=148001"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=148001"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=148001"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nioras.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=148001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}