{"id":12916,"date":"2023-08-14T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2023-08-11T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:11:53","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-14-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12916","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6pib1\" data-offset-key=\"87uti-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"87uti-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"87uti-0-0\">&#8220;If we live thus, following the example of the Mother of God as regards her humility, her virginal purity, her inconspicuousness, and her mystical stillness and silence; if we can share in the mystery and state of giving birth to God within us, that is, of being as far as possible untouched by nature, that is, unaffected by our subjugation to it; and if we can participate permanently in grace, then we\u2019ll be able, even in this world, to experience our mystic union with God. We\u2019ll attain the state of communion with God, that is, deification.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6pib1\" data-offset-key=\"4uptt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4uptt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4uptt-0-0\">(Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) in pemptousia.org)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"4uptt-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12917\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0716-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0716-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0716-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0716.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we live thus, following the example of the Mother of God as regards her humility, her virginal purity, her inconspicuousness, and her mystical stillness and silence; if we can [&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-12916","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\/12916","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=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}