{"id":3026,"date":"2017-02-20T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2017-02-20T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:54:24","slug":"concerning-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Concerning the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first Memorial Saturday having past it is good to examine the state of the departed, what we can do for them and what their condition does for us. \u00a0For them, \u00a0their state is fixed: \u00a0no one can be &#8216;prayed out of hell&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/prayers-dead-bible-tradition\/\">according to most Church Fathers<\/a>. \u00a0but, our prayer can move those bound for heaven out of Hades more quickly and lessen the punishment of those that remain. \u00a0 \u00a0 For us, the departed are an eternal warning: \u00a0there is no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravoslavie.ru\/english\/101202.htm\">repentance after death<\/a>, only judgement. \u00a0This should spur us to take Lent a little more seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hh-article-thumb aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dm_1-580x454.jpg\" alt=\"Prayers for the Dead in the Bible and in Tradition\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the first Memorial Saturday having past it is good to examine the state of the departed, what we can do for them and what their condition does for us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}