{"id":13717,"date":"2024-03-29T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2024-03-24T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T23:57:12","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-29-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13717","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"19rad\" data-offset-key=\"5rbp6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5rbp6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5rbp6-0-0\">&#8220;Our Grief Over the death of our close ones would be inconsolable and boundless if the Lord had not given us eternal life. Our life would be meaningless if it ended with death. What benefit, then, would there be from virtue or good deeds? They would be right who say, \u201cLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!\u201d But man was created for immortality, and by His Resurrection Christ opened the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom, of eternal blessedness, to those who believe in Him and who live righteously.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"19rad\" data-offset-key=\"bqdka-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bqdka-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bqdka-0-0\">((St. John of San Francisco, teachings on the Creed)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"bqdka-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_4161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13718\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_4161-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_4161-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_4161.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our Grief Over the death of our close ones would be inconsolable and boundless if the Lord had not given us eternal life. Our life would be meaningless if it [&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-13717","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\/13717","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=13717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13719,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}