{"id":15788,"date":"2025-08-29T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:48:31","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-29-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15788","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We should confess how we sinned and what sin we committed\u2014that is all. It is good to write a confession ahead of time, not according to the books, and read it yourself to the confessor. It will be understandable and less burdensome for the confessor, as well as easy and consoling for the penitent.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder St Ambrose of Optina,\u00a0 excerpt from his letters)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15789\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15789\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15789\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-00-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-00-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-00-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-00-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-00.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We should confess how we sinned and what sin we committed\u2014that is all. It is good to write a confession ahead of time, not according to the books, and read [&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-15788","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\/15788","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=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15790,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}