{"id":14583,"date":"2024-12-02T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14583"},"modified":"2024-12-01T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T12:45:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14583","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the priest must call the penitent to a necessary <i>change<\/i>. God does not forgive, unless the man <i>desires<\/i> a better life, makes the decision to fight his sins, to begin an ascension towards God. What seems impossible with men, is possible with God. This last exhortation must be an act of faith: try hard and God will help for He has promised to do so\u2026And then, only then, comes the <i>absolution\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i>(Fr Alexander Schmemann+, comments on Confession)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14584\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-arctic-summer-boring-though-the-pack-in-melville-bay-william-bradford-1871--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-arctic-summer-boring-though-the-pack-in-melville-bay-william-bradford-1871--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-arctic-summer-boring-though-the-pack-in-melville-bay-william-bradford-1871--768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-arctic-summer-boring-though-the-pack-in-melville-bay-william-bradford-1871--480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-arctic-summer-boring-though-the-pack-in-melville-bay-william-bradford-1871-.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the priest must call the penitent to a necessary change. God does not forgive, unless the man desires a better life, makes the decision to fight his sins, to begin [&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-14583","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\/14583","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=14583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14585,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions\/14585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}