{"id":12329,"date":"2023-02-28T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2023-02-21T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:31:21","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-februrary-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12329","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for Februrary 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Bodytext20\" style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: .25in; background: transparent;\" align=\"left\">\u201c<span style=\"color: black;\">Behold, Great Lent has come. However, it is not the fasting of the body as much as the fasting of the tongue, of the mind, of the heart, and of the senses that should preoccupy us especially now during Great Lent. Let us purify ourselves with this kind of fasting internally, where spiritual snakes are lurking that poison the life of our soul and deaden our spiritual strength, leaving it unable to correct and transfigure our soul.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span>(Elder Ephraim+ of Arizona, \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12330\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/val7-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/val7-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/val7-768x716.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/val7.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBehold, Great Lent has come. However, it is not the fasting of the body as much as the fasting of the tongue, of the mind, of the heart, and 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","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\/12329","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=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12331,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions\/12331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}