{"id":10953,"date":"2022-03-03T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:27:46","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10953","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe words lay, laity, layman come from the Greek word <em>laos<\/em> which means people. &#8220;Laikos,&#8221; layman, is the one who belongs to the people, who is a member of an organic and organized community. It is, in other words\u00a0 not a negative \u00a0but a highly positive term. It implies the ideas of full, responsible, active membership as opposed, for example, to the status of a candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Fr Alexander Schmemann, \u2018Clergy and Laity\u2018 )<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10954\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/summer_landscape_kilpisjarvi_lapponia_lapland_finland_photo_pekka_luukkola-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/summer_landscape_kilpisjarvi_lapponia_lapland_finland_photo_pekka_luukkola-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/summer_landscape_kilpisjarvi_lapponia_lapland_finland_photo_pekka_luukkola.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe words lay, laity, layman come from the Greek word laos which means people. &#8220;Laikos,&#8221; layman, is the one who belongs to the people, who is a member of an [&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-10953","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\/10953","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=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10955,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}