{"id":757,"date":"2015-07-31T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2015-08-01T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T11:59:17","slug":"saturday-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW\u00a021\u00a0<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. <sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set <em>Him<\/em> on them. <sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread <em>them<\/em> on the road. <sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:\u201cHosanna to the Son of David!\u2018Blessed <em>is<\/em> He who comes in the name of the Lord!\u2019Hosanna in the highest!\u201d<sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, \u201cWho is this?\u201d<sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>So the multitudes said, \u201cThis is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kontakion of the Procession of the Holy Cross<\/p>\n<p>As You were voluntarily crucified for our sake, \/ Grant mercy to those who are called by Your name; \/ Make all Orthodox Christians glad by Your power, \/ Granting them victories over their adversaries, \/ By bestowing on them the invincible trophy, Your weapon of peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW\u00a021\u00a06\u00a0So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7\u00a0They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8\u00a0And a very [&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-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}