{"id":1303,"date":"2016-09-02T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2016-09-02T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:31:04","slug":"142-dec-20-1973-st-john-of-kronstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"142. Dec. 20, 1973. St. John of Kronstadt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alexey \u2014<br \/>\nGreetings on the feast of our 20th-century wonderworker!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been finding more patristic citations, and the \u201cpatristic notes\u201d I sent should really be expanded into a little treatise on the Orthodox view of the creation, including the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge \u2014 but how can you keep the whole article within manageable size if that\u2019s done?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, according to St. Gregory of Sinai, the incorruption of the first creation was a somewhat modified one, which means you probably shouldn\u2019t be so bold as I was in saying \u201cno fossils\u201d \u2014 the main point remaining that in any case it is unknowable to present-day science. With thorough documentation of each point you make, the whole article can be even understated and still turn out extremely powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Father Herman returns tomorrow morning. According to the account of his talk at Jordanville in \u201cOrthodox Russia,\u201d it left a powerful impression \u2014 with 150 people present.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for us \u2014 with love in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Seraphim, m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alexey \u2014 Greetings on the feast of our 20th-century wonderworker! I\u2019ve been finding more patristic citations, and the \u201cpatristic notes\u201d I sent should really be expanded into a little treatise on the Orthodox view of the creation, including the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge \u2014 but how can you keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}