{"id":14398,"date":"2024-10-10T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14398"},"modified":"2024-10-07T05:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T09:59:38","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-10-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14398","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the writings of the Fathers of old, this relationship is compared to a marriage, with the bishop considered to be the groom, and the flock \u2013 his bride.\u00a0 And just as the husband loves his wife to such an extent that he leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and becomes intimately close to her, a bishop in the same manner must come to love his flock.\u00a0 And just as a wife obeys her husband, so the flock should obey their bishop. \u201c<br \/>\n(St Tikhon of Moscow, 1998 homily in San Francisco)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14399\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lions-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lions-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lions-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lions.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the writings of the Fathers of old, this relationship is compared to a marriage, with the bishop considered to be the groom, and the flock \u2013 his bride.\u00a0 And [&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-14398","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\/14398","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=14398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14400,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions\/14400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}