{"id":12715,"date":"2023-06-17T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12715"},"modified":"2023-06-16T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:46:45","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-17-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12715","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Whatever is done with spiritual gifts must also be done with the material ones that we have in our hands \u2013 not unjustly of course, nor with exploitation. Because if we acquire them through exploitation and injustice towards others (especially as Christians), then we are neither Christians, nor do the words of the Apostle apply to us\u2026\u00a0\u00a0And we also have no right to regard material goods as \u201cour property\u201d, because they too are the gifts of God\u2019s love, even if we have earned them through toil \u2013 with our labour \u2013 given that all our strengths are likewise a gift of His, and absolutely nothing is \u2018ours\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n(Protopresbyter George D. Metallino+, \u2018Apostolic Messages\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12716\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/turner3-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/turner3-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/turner3.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhatever is done with spiritual gifts must also be done with the material ones that we have in our hands \u2013 not unjustly of course, nor with exploitation. Because if [&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-12715","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\/12715","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=12715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12717,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions\/12717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}