{"id":3056,"date":"2017-03-02T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:13:49","slug":"quote-for-the-1st-thursday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the 1st Thursday in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how we should think always.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how we should live through difficulties and tragedies. We should see them all as opportunities for prayer, for approaching God. That\u2019s the secret: how the man of God will transform everything into prayer. That\u2019s what Saint Paul the Apostle means when he says, \u2018I rejoice in my sufferings\u2019, in all the tribulations he encountered. This is how sanctification takes place. May God grant this to us. I ask for this fervently in my prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Elder St. Porphyrios in \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3057\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lth-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"1lth\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lth-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lth.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how we should think always.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how we should live through difficulties and tragedies. We should see them all as opportunities for prayer, for approaching God. That\u2019s the [&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-3056","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\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}