{"id":7444,"date":"2022-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-voice-of-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:29:45","slug":"the-voice-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-voice-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He called me. He asked that we meet. I was in my office. I know the caller, but I also know what the brothers think of him. Most of them do not trust him! He is about forty years old. In his call, he repeated to me that he is a father of six children. I reminded him of what he had heard from me before. I blamed him for making light of life; for his ignorance that we live in a country in which each of us is, alone, responsible for himself, in almost everything; for bragging about his manhood at the expense of others! What more can he be told? At our last meeting, he had repeated to me his refrain: \"if I come to you again, throw me out!\" The brethren\u2019s voice was right in my head at the time of our meeting. Is he \u201can exploiter\u201d, \u201cstealing the bread of the poor\u201d, as someone had told me about him? I believe that among the \"poor\" there are thieves! However, what do you do with sleep deprivation if you are besieged on your bed by the voice of the Lord in the Gospel of Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He called me. He asked that we meet. I was in my office. I know the caller, but I also know what the brothers think of him. Most of them do not trust him! He is about forty years old. In his call, he repeated to me that he is a father of six children. ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2724,3109,1293,1430,1500],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-gospel-teachings","tag-judgment-day","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-social-responsibility","tag-spiritual-discernment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7748,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}