{"id":8533,"date":"2023-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-request-of-the-word\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:56","slug":"the-request-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-request-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Request of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is a family. Is there a family without wounds? The overall scene in ecclesiastical communities does not conceal that many brethren who have received baptism do not care about the life of commitment in them, that is, they have not yet really become Christians! Here is a society, some of whom in it are no different from others who put God behind their backs. Am I calling you to succumb to this disease? No, but to reconcile that our ecclesiastical membership refuses that we live as strangers in the homeland of our kin. I say to let God lift us all up to the gift of being His household. This is the request of the Word, that each of us is a brother to the other, responsible for him. Will there come a day when we see every member among us engrossed in love, love of God and of his brethren, seeing in this engrossment his present as well as his future? Let us pray to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is a family. Is there a family without wounds? The overall scene in ecclesiastical communities does not conceal that many brethren who have received baptism do not care about the life of commitment in them, that is, they have not yet really become Christians! Here is a society, some of whom in it ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2320,1444,1296,2474,1271],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-brotherhood-in-christ","tag-christian-commitment","tag-church-community","tag-love-of-god","tag-orthodox-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}