{"id":7682,"date":"2020-01-02T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2020-01-01T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T11:53:20","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7682","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Son of God Who became a Man for the salvation of all men is God\u2019s gift for humankind.<br \/>\nThat is why, the Magi from the East or the wise men bring gifts to Him, and through this they urge us humans to answer to God\u2019s love with gifts, both material and spiritual gifts. Thus, Christmas is the feast of the gifts joyfully offered and joyfully received to cultivate goodwill among men.\u201d<br \/>\n(Patriarch Daniel of Romania, 2019 homily)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7683\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ericallixrogers-assumption-web-10-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ericallixrogers-assumption-web-10-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ericallixrogers-assumption-web-10-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ericallixrogers-assumption-web-10-1024x693.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ericallixrogers-assumption-web-10.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Son of God Who became a Man for the salvation of all men is God\u2019s gift for humankind. That is why, the Magi from the East or the wise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682","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=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}