{"id":1276,"date":"2015-02-14T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2015-02-28T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T03:18:07","slug":"the-meeting-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"The Meeting of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SRETENIE.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1277\" src=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SRETENIE-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"SRETENIE\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SRETENIE-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SRETENIE-252x230.jpg 252w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SRETENIE.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At this Meeting the Lord is surrounded on the one side by Simeon \u2014 righteousness which awaits salvation, but not of itself, and Anna \u2014 a life of strict fasting and prayer, made alive by faith; and on the other side by essential, comprehensive and steadfast purity \u2014 the Virgin Mother of God, and by humble, silent submission and devotion to the will of God \u2014 Joseph the Betrothed.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer all of these spiritual attitudes to your heart and you will meet the Lord; not carried to you, but coming to you Himself. You will take Him into the embrace of your heart, and you will sing a hymn which will pass throughout the heavens and gladden all the angels and saints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Saint Theophan the Recluse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this Meeting the Lord is surrounded on the one side by Simeon \u2014 righteousness which awaits salvation, but not of itself, and Anna \u2014 a life of strict fasting and prayer, made alive by faith; and on the other side by essential, comprehensive and steadfast purity \u2014 the Virgin Mother of God, and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-holiday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}