{"id":14977,"date":"2025-03-03T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:27:14","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14977","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The lighting of the candle symbolizes that this is an offer of a sacrifice of respect and honor to God and His Saints. It symbolizes Christ\u2019s light which enlightens every man but also the well known Lord\u2019s command to Christians to be the &#8216;lights&#8217; of the world.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Excerpt from post at monastiriaka.gr)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14978\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_416-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_416-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/44109086_candles_ap_416.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The lighting of the candle symbolizes that this is an offer of a sacrifice of respect and honor to God and His Saints. It symbolizes Christ\u2019s light which enlightens every [&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-14977","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\/14977","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=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}