{"id":1957,"date":"2016-04-23T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:21:22","slug":"orthodox-devotional-for-sunday-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"nrnd\" data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Palm Sunday\/Entry into Jerusalem \u00a0(John 12:1-18)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">ST. NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a7lqt-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;At the glorious Entry of the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem, and even in the Temple itself, the children cried out: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord&#8230;There can be no doubt that it was a great wonder, inspired by the Spirit of God and carried out by the power and will of God. While the princes, scribes, elders and priests were not able to recognize Christ the Lord, the little children both recognized and proclaimed Him! In truth, this is a miracle, unique throughout the Old and New Testaments; and no less of a miracle than the resurrection of the dead. In fact, during the first miracle [Christ\u2019s Entry into Jerusalem] and during the second [Christ\u2019s Resurrection], the same power of God was acting\u2014 the same Spirit and the same providence of God.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"nrnd\" data-offset-key=\"drhjq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"drhjq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"drhjq-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(From the &#8216;Prologue&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Sunday\/Entry into Jerusalem \u00a0(John 12:1-18) ST. NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH: &#8220;At the glorious Entry of the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem, and even in the Temple itself, the children cried out: Hosanna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}