{"id":405,"date":"2015-06-13T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-06-13T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:25:32","slug":"sunday-june-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, June 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 4 <sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. <sup>19\u00a0<\/sup>Then He said to them, \u201cFollow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.\u201d <sup>20\u00a0<\/sup>They immediately left <em>their<\/em> nets and followed Him.<sup>21\u00a0<\/sup>Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James <em>the son<\/em> of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, <sup>22\u00a0<\/sup>and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.<sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.<\/p>\n<p>COMMENTARY<\/p>\n<p>The two vessels signify the two Churches; the one was called out of the circumcision, the other out of the uncircumcision. Any one who believes becomes Simon, i, e. obedient to God; Peter by acknowledging his sin, Andrew by enduring labours manfully, James by overcoming vices&#8230;<br \/>\n(Rabanus)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/a4.ocacdn.net\/js\/combined_540dd4ad40af3b521dca3357cc9a2b71.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/use.typekit.com\/ydx6axp.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/a1.ocacdn.net\/js\/pre8828cb.js\"><\/script><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n_gaq.push(['_trackPageview'])\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>Synaxis of the Saints of North America<\/p>\n<div id=\"container\">\n<div id=\"container-inner\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"body-w-sidebar clearfix\">\n<div id=\"main-col\">\n<div id=\"main-col-contents\">\n<article>\n<article>\n<h2>Troparion \u2014 Tone 8<\/h2>\n<p>As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation, \/ The lands of North America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone in them. \/ By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace \/ Through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 4 18\u00a0And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. [&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-405","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\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}