{"id":11691,"date":"2022-09-07T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11691"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:32:21","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-8-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11691","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout this hierarchical structure the Church would become a purely human organization reflecting the various ideas, tastes, choices of men. She would cease to be the Divine Institution, God\u2019s gift to us. But then &#8220;laity&#8221; could not be &#8220;laity&#8221;\u2014 the People of God \u2014 any more, there would be no <em>Amen<\/em> to be said, for where there is no gift there can be no acceptance&#8230; The mystery of Holy Orders in the Church is that which makes the whole Church truly and fully the Laos, the Laity, the very People of God.\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-11692\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/iconst-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/iconst-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/iconst-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/iconst.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/iconst-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout this hierarchical structure the Church would become a purely human organization reflecting the various ideas, tastes, choices of men. She would cease to be the Divine Institution, God\u2019s gift [&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-11691","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\/11691","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=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}