{"id":10156,"date":"2021-08-29T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2021-08-01T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:54:57","slug":"metropolitan-sotirios-on-entrusting-ourselves-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10156","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Sotirios on Entrusting Ourselves to God\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequently heard exhortation of the Church which the faithful who attend daily Services hear is, \u201cLet us commend ourselves and one another, and our whole life to Christ our God.\u201d\u00a0 The Celebrant says this multiple times (as many as ten during Matins and the Divine Liturgy), and some may wonder:\u00a0 Why is this repeated so much?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to this question is simple, in that its repetition shows how important it is for a person to entrust their whole life to our Lord and God Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 This desire to do so is also expressed elsewhere in the Divine Liturgy, in the Prayer just before the Lord\u2019s Prayer:\u00a0 \u201cWe entrust to You, loving Master, our whole life and hope\u2026\u201d\u00a0 By expressing this commitment to the Lord with these words and more, we acknowledge that we have nothing of our own.\u00a0\u00a0 As St. Paul the Apostle writes, all that we are (body, spirit and soul) belong to God (see 1 Corinthians 5:15-20).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10157\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/o-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/o-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/o.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Article in Pemptousia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**We are pleased to include writings from modern\u00a0\u00a0 Monasteries from time to time as well as our traditional Elders**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequently heard exhortation of the Church which the faithful who attend daily Services hear is, \u201cLet us commend ourselves and one another, and our whole life to Christ [&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-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10158,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}