{"id":6623,"date":"2018-03-19T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:23:11","slug":"fr-thomas-hopko-on-the-annunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/fr-thomas-hopko-on-the-annunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Thomas Hopko on the Annunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hopko-speaking-logo.png\" alt=\"Click to listen to Fr. Hopko\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-704\" \/>On March 25, exactly 9 months before Nativity, the Church celebrates the Annunciation to the Theotokos that she will be the Mother of God. God&#8217;s declaration through the angel Gabriel, however, had a contingency attached. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to find out what it was.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nPodcast courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/hopko\/the_annunciation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ancient Faith Radio<\/a>. Click the link if the player does not open in your browser.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 1em 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/divider-2.png\" \/><\/div>\n[audio:http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/hopko\/stt13annunciation_pc.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 25, exactly 9 months before Nativity, the Church celebrates the Annunciation to the Theotokos that she will be the Mother of God. God&#8217;s declaration through the angel Gabriel, however, had a contingency attached. Listen to find out what it was. Podcast courtesy of Ancient Faith Radio. Click the link if the player does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","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=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}