{"id":1135,"date":"2015-10-04T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2015-10-03T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T01:21:12","slug":"monday-octoberr-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Monday, October 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 3 &#8230;\u00a0the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. <sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, <sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying:\u201cThe voice of one crying in the wilderness:<br \/>\n\u2018Prepare the way of the Lord;<br \/>\nMake His paths straight.<br \/>\n<sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>Every valley shall be filled<br \/>\nAnd every mountain and hill brought low;<br \/>\nThe crooked places shall be made straight<br \/>\nAnd the rough ways smooth;<br \/>\n<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.\u2019\u201d<sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, \u201cBrood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? <sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Abraham as <em>our<\/em> father.\u2019 For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. <sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.\u201d<sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>So the people asked him, saying, \u201cWhat shall we do then?\u201d<sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>He answered and said to them, \u201cHe who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John cries in the desert because he brings the glad tidings of redemption to deserted and forsaken Jud\u00e6a, but what he cries is explained in the words, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. For they who preach true faith and good works, what else do they than prepare the way for the Lord\u2019s coming into the hearts of the hearers, that they might make the paths of God straight, forming pure thoughts in the mind by the word of good preaching.<\/p>\n<p>( St. Gregory)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 3 &#8230;\u00a0the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3\u00a0And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","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=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}