{"id":2736,"date":"2021-03-14T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2021-03-14T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:00:52","slug":"mothers-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s tear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/chora-church-tour-3-1-347x230.jpeg 347w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both joy and sorrow are in your tear,<br>just as all secrets are gathered in it,<br>countless sighs, but also hope fervent,<br>as Christ has conquered death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Your love has raised me for the eternity<br>because true love brings up like that,<br>on your knee I learned Church Slavic,<br>and since childhood I accepted the cross* from you.<br><br>I don\u2019t regret that with your Christ I am hanging on the cross now<br>as I have seen you just there before,<br>in the crucified love for your child,<br>as Christ\u2019s love for the life of the world.<br><br>One cannot carry the cross without tears<br>as the cross produces sorrow and pain,<br>but in these tears, o mother, I see joy,<br>as you know: Christ has conquered death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jovan Vranishkovski, Archbishop of Ohrid<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fast of the Holy Apostles, 2006<br>\/When the authorities in the Republic of Macedonia<br>initiate a new prison sentence for the vladika\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Voluntarily decided to live as an Orthodox Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both joy and sorrow are in your tear,just as all secrets are gathered in it,countless sighs, but also hope fervent,as Christ has conquered death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}