{"id":719,"date":"2015-07-22T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2015-07-21T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:40:40","slug":"july-22-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"July 22, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary Magdalene: St. Mary was prominently mentioned in the Gospels as a devoted follower of Christ. \u00a0She was among the first witnesses of His Resurrection. \u00a0Later she witnessed to Tiberias Caesar and gave him a red egg. \u00a0 Yet, she was never a priest or Church hierarch. In today&#8217;s world where &#8216;equality&#8217; is a preoccupation, the differing roles of men and women in the Church should not be seen as barriers or &#8216;classes&#8217;. \u00a0St. Mary is an example that one doesn&#8217;t need a &#8216;title&#8217; to accomplish great things for the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2015\/07\/22\/102070-myrrhbearer-and-equal-of-the-apostles-mary-magdalene<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/july\/0722marymagdalene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/july\/0722marymagdalene.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary Magdalene: St. Mary was prominently mentioned in the Gospels as a devoted follower of Christ. \u00a0She was among the first witnesses of His Resurrection. \u00a0Later she witnessed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-saints-for-daily-life","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}