{"id":6811,"date":"2019-06-30T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2019-06-19T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:56:04","slug":"st-tikhon-on-the-universal-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"St Tikhon on the Universal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut it is not enough, brethren, only to celebrate \u2018The Triumph of Orthodoxy\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 It is necessary for us personally to promote and contribute to this triumph.\u00a0 And for this we must reverently preserve the Orthodox Faith, standing firm in it in spite of the fact that we live in a non-Orthodox country, and not pleading as an excuse for our apostasy that \u201cit is not the old land here but America, a free country, and therefore it is impossible to follow everything that the Church requires.\u201d\u00a0 As if the word of Christ is only suitable for the old land and not for the entire world!\u00a0 As if the Church of Christ is not \u201ccatholic\u201d! As if the Orthodox Faith did not \u2018establish the universe\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ Homily During Lent<\/p>\n<p>***Now and then we include a particularly thought provoking or inspiring excerpt not from an \u2018Elder\u2019***<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6812\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halkidiki-89-f1ef1795a4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halkidiki-89-f1ef1795a4-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halkidiki-89-f1ef1795a4-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halkidiki-89-f1ef1795a4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut it is not enough, brethren, only to celebrate \u2018The Triumph of Orthodoxy\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 It is necessary for us personally to promote and contribute to this triumph.\u00a0 And for this we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}