{"id":1717,"date":"2016-02-04T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T16:11:42","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"dpgsg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dpgsg-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;And in this renewal, the place and the role of the laity is unique. If the first duty of the clergy is to serve the Church, the first and essential duty of the laity is to bring into the world \u2014 and this means into its culture, daily life, professions, family, etc. \u2014 the Christian witness, the image of Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit..It is as if by revealing to us the Apostle to America, God was reminding us of our own vocation to be fully Orthodox in America, not for ourselves, but for the sake of America.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"bsmoh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bsmoh-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Fr. Alexander Schmemann + in comments on St. Innocent)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"bsmoh-0-0\">\n<div style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popphoto.com\/sites\/popphoto.com\/files\/styles\/medium_1x_\/public\/image_800.jpeg?itok=rNiTmc_F\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.popphoto.com\/sites\/popphoto.com\/files\/styles\/medium_1x_\/public\/image_800.jpeg?itok=rNiTmc_F<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And in this renewal, the place and the role of the laity is unique. If the first duty of the clergy is to serve the Church, the first and essential [&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-1717","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\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}