{"id":9582,"date":"2021-03-25T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9582"},"modified":"2021-03-06T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:03:09","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-25-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9582","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8230;are aware of the part played by Divine Grace in the Virgin Mary\u2019s life and are aware of the perfection of her virtue. However, we cannot lose sight of the importance of free will in the development and expression of her rich personality. After the Annunication, she kept the secret of God\u2019s plan for her; she faced misunderstanding and accusation from others&#8230;The Virgin Mary, aided by Divine Grace, carried out these actions in a real world\u2014with real effort and sacrifice. Thus she is for us a model of many virtues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Archdeacon Basil Kuretich in &#8216;Orthodox Tradition&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9583\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ib-415-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ib-415-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ib-415-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ib-415-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ib-415.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8230;are aware of the part played by Divine Grace in the Virgin Mary\u2019s life and are aware of the perfection of her virtue. However, we cannot lose sight of the [&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-9582","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\/9582","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=9582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9584,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}