{"id":7545,"date":"2022-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/before-the-wedding\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:29:56","slug":"before-the-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/before-the-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not set your wedding date before: \u201c1- You have made your choice in this life that God is the Beginning and the End. 2-You have acquired an unwavering consciousness that there is no meaning for a married person (be it man or woman) who does not strive, every day, for his spouse to be the greatest. 3- You have become fully conscious that marriage is a connection in which the presence of one in the life of the other is complete. 4- You have come to know for certain that, in this world, it is not allowed for you to give precedence, for one moment, to any face, over the one with whom you have been united by grace. 5- The greatest thing that convinces you is that married life is a path to holiness. 6- You have been seized by an eternal conviction that great love, that is the real one, is \u201cto lay down one\u2019s life for his friends\u201d (John 15:13). Think about these lines; then do whatever you want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not set your wedding date before: \u201c1- You have made your choice in this life that God is the Beginning and the End. 2-You have acquired an unwavering consciousness that there is no meaning for a married person (be it man or woman) who does not strive, every day, for his spouse to be ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2033,2932,2930,2931,2933],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-marriage","tag-holy-matrimony","tag-marriage-preparation","tag-orthodox-wedding","tag-spiritual-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}