{"id":531,"date":"2018-05-23T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/05\/23\/parable-of-day-may-23-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-12-25T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:19:57","slug":"parable-of-day-may-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/parable-of-day-may-23-2018","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: Christ Often Comes and Knocks at Your Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/235704.p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"378\" data-original-width=\"700\" \/>Elder Amphilochius (Makris) was the rector of St John the Theologian Monastery at the Island of Patmos. He founded several monasteries, children\u2019s shelters, and almshouses in the Greek islands.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wise elder often used parables to make a point:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013 Christ often comes and knocks at your door, and you invite him to sit in the antechamber of your soul. Then you get distracted by your problems and forget about the Great Guest. He sits there patiently waiting for you, and when you don\u2019t return for too long, He gets up and leaves.<\/div>\n<div>Sometimes you are so busy that you respond to him out of your window. You have no time even to open the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Translated by The Catalogue of Good Deeds<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/azbyka.ru\/days\/\">azbyka.ru\/days<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder Amphilochius (Makris) was the rector of St John the Theologian Monastery at the Island of Patmos. He founded several monasteries, children\u2019s shelters, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-and-parables","tag-orthodox-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2-11-1-11-1.jpeg","views":{"total":164,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768422317},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-8z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27638,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/27638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}