{"id":16041,"date":"2025-10-24T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:52:07","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-24-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16041","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Christian community that would lose this missionary zeal and purpose, that would become selfish and self-centered, that would limit itself to &#8220;satisfying the spiritual needs of its members&#8221;, that would identify itself completely with a nation, a society, a social or ethnic group \u2013 is on its way to spiritual decadence and death, because the essential spiritual need of a Christian is precisely that of sharing the life and the Truth with as many men as possible and ultimately with the whole world. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Alexander Schmemann+, \u2018Orthodoxy and Mission\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16042\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7kkp00-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7kkp00-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7kkp00-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7kkp00-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Christian community that would lose this missionary zeal and purpose, that would become selfish and self-centered, that would limit itself to &#8220;satisfying the spiritual needs of its members&#8221;, that [&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-16041","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\/16041","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=16041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16043,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}