{"id":808,"date":"2015-08-14T20:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2015-08-02T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:49:49","slug":"saturday-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"woj\">LUKE 10 <\/span><span class=\"text\"><sup>38\u00a0<\/sup>Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. <sup>39\u00a0<\/sup>And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus\u2019 feet and heard His word. <sup>40\u00a0<\/sup>But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, \u201cLord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.\u201d<sup>41\u00a0<\/sup>And Jesus answered and said to her, <\/span><span class=\"woj\">\u201cMartha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.<\/span><span class=\"text\"> <sup>42\u00a0<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"woj\">But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.\u201d<\/span><sup>11:27\u00a0<\/sup>And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, \u201cBlessed <i>is<\/i> the womb that bore You, and <i>the<\/i> breasts which nursed You!\u201d <sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>But He said, \u201cMore than that, blessed <i>are<\/i> those who hear the word of God and keep it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PRACTICAL APPLICATION: this same reading is used for all of the Feasts of Mary not in the Bible itself but derived from the Holy Tradition or teaching of the Apostles and early fathers. \u00a0Perhaps it is because the Virgin Mary combined the best traits of sisters Martha and Mary: service to others \u00a0and contemplation of spiritual truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUKE 10 38\u00a0Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39\u00a0And she had a sister [&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-808","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\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}