{"id":1822,"date":"2016-06-06T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:03:42","slug":"ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"Ascension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-asset.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-asset.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2850\" width=\"351\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-asset.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-asset-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-asset-171x230.jpeg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Paul expresses the power of the Lord\u2019s Ascension in this manner: <em>When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men<\/em> (Eph. 4:8). Having satisfied God\u2019s righteousness, the Lord opened for us all the treasures of God\u2019s goodness. This is indeed a capturing or taking of spoils after victory. The beginning of the distribution of these spoils to people is the descent of the Holy Spirit, Who, having descended, always abides in the Church and gives everyone that which he needs, receiving all from that captive captivity (cf. Eph 4:8). Come everyone and take. But prepare for yourself guardian of that treasure, which is a pure heart; have hands to take it, which is unreflecting faith. Then step forth searching hopefully, and praying relentlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201e<\/em><em>Thoughts for Each Day of the Year<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em> by St. Theophan the Recluse<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul expresses the power of the Lord\u2019s Ascension in this manner: When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men (Eph. 4:8). Having satisfied God\u2019s righteousness, the Lord opened for us all the treasures of God\u2019s goodness. This is indeed a capturing or taking of spoils after victory. [&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-1822","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\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}