{"id":2151,"date":"2018-03-28T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2018-03-28T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T02:47:42","slug":"let-us-spread-before-him-the-real-rewards-of-his-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Let us spread before Him the rewards of His victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let us spread before His feet not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in His grace, or rather, clothed completely in Him. We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before Him. Now that the crimson stains of our sins have been washed away in the saving waters of baptism and we have become white as pure wool, let us present the Conqueror of death, not with mere branches of palms but with the real rewards of His victory.<\/p>\n

St. Andrew of Crete on Palm Sunday<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Let us spread before His feet not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in His grace, or rather, clothed completely in Him. We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before Him. Now […]<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-fathers-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t