{"id":2781,"date":"2016-12-24T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:16:37","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gag5\" data-offset-key=\"dc6dc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dc6dc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dc6dc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;It is all too easy for us to diminish our human dignity \u2013 a gift from God \u2013 when we attempt to make the \u201cvices\u201d of the world into something, or somehow, acceptable to God. We exhibit our inability to comprehend the Truth of the Incarnation, that God is love and wants to lift us up&#8230;when we attempt to define that Love in simple human terms&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gag5\" data-offset-key=\"tnvr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"tnvr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"tnvr-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops of Beyond the Borders, Nativity 2016)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gag5\" data-offset-key=\"2iih-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2iih-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2iih-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gag5\" data-offset-key=\"8ms10-0-0\">\n<div style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sep.yimg.com\/ay\/yhst-47912705652979\/the-nativity-of-christ-5-nested-icon-doll-7-10.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/sep.yimg.com\/ay\/yhst-47912705652979\/the-nativity-of-christ-5-nested-icon-doll-7-10.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"635\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/sep.yimg.com\/ay\/yhst-47912705652979\/the-nativity-of-christ-5-nested-icon-doll-7-10.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is all too easy for us to diminish our human dignity \u2013 a gift from God \u2013 when we attempt to make the \u201cvices\u201d of the world into something, [&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-2781","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\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}