{"id":5315,"date":"2016-08-14T19:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2016-08-14T19:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:08:01","slug":"dormition-of-the-theotokos-divine-liturgy-on-monday-august-15-at-630pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/dormition-of-the-theotokos-divine-liturgy-on-monday-august-15-at-630pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormition of the Theotokos Divine Liturgy on Monday, August 15 at 6:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dormition of the Theotokos Liturgy on Monday, August 15, 2016 at 6:30pm<\/h2>\n
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Dormition of the Theotokos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Dormition” means “falling-asleep,” the term St. Paul uses for those who have died in Christ. Death in Christ is like a falling asleep and then awakening with Christ. <\/p>\n

The Holy Scriptures tell us that when our Lord was dying on the Cross, He saw His mother and His disciple John and said to the Virgin Mary, “Woman, behold your son!” and to John, “Behold your mother!” (John 19:25-27). From that hour, the Apostle took care of the Theotokos in his own home.<\/p>\n

The season ends on August 15 with a special Divine Liturgy held at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dormition of the Theotokos Liturgy on Monday, August 15, 2016 at 6:30pm Dormition of the Theotokos “Dormition” means “falling-asleep,” the term St. Paul uses for those who have died in Christ. Death in Christ is like a falling asleep and then awakening with Christ. The Holy Scriptures tell us that when our Lord was dying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}