{"id":13551,"date":"2024-02-10T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2024-02-10T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:21:40","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-10-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13551","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we are to discern how to fulfill our vocation to bear witness to our Lord in the midst of a world still enslaved to the fear of death, we must embrace the full meaning of our baptism.\u00a0 That requires constant vigilance against allowing self-centered desire to creep unnoticed into our hearts and distort our vision of ourselves, our neighbors, and our world.\u00a0 That requires turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, and treating others as we would have them treat us&#8230; That requires turning away from whatever fuels our passions so that the desires of our hearts are purified and directed toward their true fulfillment in God. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Philip Lemasters,\u00a0 Eastern Christian Insights blog)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13552\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a2-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we are to discern how to fulfill our vocation to bear witness to our Lord in the midst of a world still enslaved to the fear of death, we [&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-13551","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\/13551","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=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13553,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions\/13553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}