{"id":10601,"date":"2021-12-01T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:53:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10601","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Fall, as St. Gregory of Nyssa indicated, involved the mind like a mirror receiving the image of formless matter instead of reflecting God as before. In effect, the result was an objectification of self and of the world and others, a \u201cstripping of grace\u201d or spiritual death, an inclination toward sin in fallen human nature. This made man subject to physical death, in the separation of soul from body. Sexual passion and procreation also emerged after the Fall.\u201d<br \/>\n(Abbot Damascene, summary of Fr Seraphim Rose\u2019s writings on creation)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10602\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdf-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdf-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdf-768x985.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdf-799x1024.jpg 799w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdf.jpg 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Fall, as St. Gregory of Nyssa indicated, involved the mind like a mirror receiving the image of formless matter instead of reflecting God as before. In effect, the result [&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-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601","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=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}