{"id":8987,"date":"2020-10-24T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:19:12","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-24-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8987","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccording to the Holy Fathers, diseases are given for spiritual purification and the salvation of the soul. It is often through a disease that a man finds his way to God. We may not always know the providence of God in our lives, why a this or that trial was sent to us. But our blessed duty is to change our sinful lives for the better and spiritually grow in Christian virtues.\u201d<br \/>\n(Metropolitan Onuphry of Ukraine, October homily on COVID)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8988\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1024px-Dam_Timber_Crib-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1024px-Dam_Timber_Crib-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1024px-Dam_Timber_Crib-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1024px-Dam_Timber_Crib.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccording to the Holy Fathers, diseases are given for spiritual purification and the salvation of the soul. It is often through a disease that a man finds his way 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","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\/8987","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=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}