{"id":4863,"date":"2017-01-22T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:38:05","slug":"next-week-january-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"NEXT WEEK &#8212; January 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Holy-Napkin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Holy-Napkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Holy-Napkin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Holy-Napkin-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Holy-Napkin-334x300.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Next week our Church begins its pre-Great Fast sequence of five weeks that deal with various aspects of <em>Metanoia <\/em>or Repentance. These five weeks are meant to prepare us for the rigors of the Great Fast.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the icon of the Great Fast is really the icon known as the <em>Achei ropoieta <\/em>(<em>Medieval Greek<\/em>): <strong>\u1f00\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1, <\/strong>that is made without hands. There are several Christian icons which are said to have come into existence in a miraculous manner, not created by a human hands. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. The most notable example that is credited by tradition among the faithful is, in the Eastern Church, the <em>Mandylion (icon above<\/em>), also known as the Image of Edessa or Veronica\u2019s Veil. Supposedly during the Lord\u2019s journey to Golgatha, the woman Veronica wiped His face and His image was left behind. This icon reminds us that we are called to grow in His likeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week our Church begins its pre-Great Fast sequence of five weeks that deal with various aspects of Metanoia or Repentance. These five weeks are meant to prepare us for the rigors of the Great Fast. I believe that the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-lent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}