{"id":13459,"date":"2024-01-16T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2024-01-06T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:22:27","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-16-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13459","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt every liturgy in the Orthodox Church, just before the singing of the Nicene Creed, the priest or the deacon intones the words, &#8220;The doors! The doors!&#8221; This call dates back to the earliest times, when the doors of the church had to be barred shut, to prevent outsiders (in those days, Roman soldiers) from entering the church, witnessing those who confessed the faith, seizing them, and killing them.\u00a0 Being a Christian was not safe.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Geoffrey in asna.ca article)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13460\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j47-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j47-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j47.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt every liturgy in the Orthodox Church, just before the singing of the Nicene Creed, the priest or the deacon intones the words, &#8220;The doors! The doors!&#8221; This call dates [&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-13459","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\/13459","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=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}