{"id":13377,"date":"2023-12-25T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2023-12-17T20:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T01:01:59","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-25-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13377","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6akoo\" data-offset-key=\"aj9o5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"aj9o5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"aj9o5-0-0\">&#8220;Today the Lord is born, the life and salvation of mankind; today a reconciliation is made of Divinity to humanity, and of humanity to Divinity; today all creation has leapt for joy; those above sent toward those below; and those below towards those above; today occurred the death of darkness and the life of humanity; today a way was made toward God for man and a way for God into the soul.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6akoo\" data-offset-key=\"d32rq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d32rq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d32rq-0-0\">(St. Macarius the Great, collection of sayings)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAT1-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13378\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAT1-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAT1-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAT1-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today the Lord is born, the life and salvation of mankind; today a reconciliation is made of Divinity to humanity, and of humanity to Divinity; today all creation has leapt [&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-13377","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\/13377","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=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}