{"id":3509,"date":"2018-10-26T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2018-10-26T06:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:40:05","slug":"pastoral-letter-november-26-2017-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Letter October 28, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#359966;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">As we Celebrate the Feast of St. Demetrios the Great Martyr, Let us Remember that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/9798.290810231163.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/9798.290810231163.png 317w, https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/9798.290810231163-141x300.png 141w, https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/9798.290810231163-236x500.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#359966;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">The earliest icons of this great man of God,<br>\ndid not depict him in armor,<br>\ndid not paint him with weapons,<br>\ndid not identify him as a warrior,<br>\ndid not give him a shield,<br>\ndid not place upon him a helmet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#359966;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">But rather\u2026<br>\ncelebrated his youth,<br>\nsurrounded him with children,<br>\nrobed him in gentleness,<br>\nsoftened his features,<br>\nbathed him in light,<br>\ncrowned him as a martyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#359966;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">All the while,<br>\nGlorifying Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#359966;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\">May all who celebrate today, find joy, peace and hope<br>\nthrough the prayers and intercessions of<br>\nSt. Demetrios the Great Martyr and Myrrh-Flowing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we Celebrate the Feast of St. Demetrios the Great Martyr, Let us Remember that\u2026 The earliest icons of this great man of God, did not depict him in armor, did not paint him with weapons, did not identify him as a warrior, did not give him a shield, did not place upon him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stannagocutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}