{"id":3062,"date":"2017-03-04T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:35:55","slug":"quote-for-the-1st-saturday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the 1st Saturday in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Abstinence, fasting, keeping vigil, renouncing worldly things, etc., are the means, my child, by which we attain purity of heart. The primary property that characterizes purity of heart is love.\u00a0So our goal is purity of heart. Without purity, God is not beheld, He is not revealed. \u00a0So how can we tell whether we have achieved our goal, whether we have drawn near to it, if \u00a0\u00a0we do not have a pure heart?&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Ephraim of Arizona in \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3063\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1ls-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1ls\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1ls-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1ls-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1ls.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Abstinence, fasting, keeping vigil, renouncing worldly things, etc., are the means, my child, by which we attain purity of heart. The primary property that characterizes purity of heart is love.\u00a0So [&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-3062","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\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}