{"id":12450,"date":"2023-04-02T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12450"},"modified":"2023-04-01T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T12:47:11","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12450","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGreat Lent, then, is not a time to show how pious we are in our observance of the fast and attendance at services. Neither is it a time to prove our great virtue by imagining that we, on our own strength, can take the fast like a cudgel to our sins in an act of moral heroism. No; <a href=\"https:\/\/orthochristian.com\/68863.html\">Great Lent<\/a> is a time to humble ourselves, to present ourselves to God as \u201cwilling and obedient,\u201d and to allow him to cleanse the scarlet and crimson stains of our sins\u201d.<br \/>\n(Lenten Message of Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA, 2023)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12451\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-YdlbOj2ZOO4-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-YdlbOj2ZOO4-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-YdlbOj2ZOO4-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-YdlbOj2ZOO4-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-YdlbOj2ZOO4-unsplash-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGreat Lent, then, is not a time to show how pious we are in our observance of the fast and attendance at services. Neither is it a time to prove [&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-12450","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\/12450","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=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12452,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions\/12452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}