{"id":12169,"date":"2023-01-11T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12169"},"modified":"2023-01-08T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:09:29","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-11-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12169","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote For January 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur most important task, perhaps, is the Christian enlightenment of ourselves and others. We must go deeper into our faith\u2026 knowing how God acts in our lives; by reading the lives of God-pleasers in the Old and New Testaments (we read the Old Testament far too little; it is very instructive); by reading the lives of Saints and the writings of the Holy Fathers on practical spiritual life; by reading about the suffering of Christians today and in recent years. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Seraphim Rose, \u20181979 Lecture\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12170\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arct66.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur most important task, perhaps, is the Christian enlightenment of ourselves and others. We must go deeper into our faith\u2026 knowing how God acts in our lives; by reading the [&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-12169","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\/12169","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=12169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}