{"id":4512,"date":"2018-03-12T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T13:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:50:55","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-12-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e091t\" data-offset-key=\"4leo7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4leo7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4leo7-0-0\">&#8220;We mustn\u2019t look at Lent as a ban. Fasting is one of the voluntary components of spiritual practice, and keeping the fast is an expression of our obedience to the Lord and His holy Church&#8230;the Church reminds us that Lent is a time for correcting our mistakes and infirmities, for overcoming our shortcomings, for spiritual rehabilitation, a time for marching towards God, rather than withdrawing from Him. Bodily abstinence and prayer help us in this.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e091t\" data-offset-key=\"bvnnc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bvnnc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bvnnc-0-0\">(Metropolitan Onuphry Berezovsky) on Lent)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"bvnnc-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4513\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v9-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v9-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v9.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v9-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We mustn\u2019t look at Lent as a ban. Fasting is one of the voluntary components of spiritual practice, and keeping the fast is an expression of our obedience to 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-4512","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\/4512","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=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}