{"id":4568,"date":"2018-03-21T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2018-03-21T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:41:34","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4568","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9986i\" data-offset-key=\"clhg7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"clhg7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"clhg7-0-0\">&#8220;When it comes to the spiritual disciplines of Lent, we must be especially on guard against the temptation to make the season simply about ourselves. If our focus is simply on the quality of our prayers, our fasting, our almsgiving, and our repentance, we will miss the point of this season without even noticing it. For Lent is not about achieving a new \u201cpersonal best\u201d in our religious observance, but about preparing to follow Christ to His Passion.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9986i\" data-offset-key=\"a4jsf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a4jsf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a4jsf-0-0\">(Fr Philip LeMasters in pravmir.com)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9986i\" data-offset-key=\"1f7jj-0-0\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4569\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Celtic_cross_Knock_Ireland-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Celtic_cross_Knock_Ireland-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Celtic_cross_Knock_Ireland-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Celtic_cross_Knock_Ireland-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Celtic_cross_Knock_Ireland-1-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When it comes to the spiritual disciplines of Lent, we must be especially on guard against the temptation to make the season simply about ourselves. If our focus is simply [&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-4568","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\/4568","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=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}