{"id":454,"date":"2018-06-15T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/06\/15\/parable-of-day-boundless-mercy-of\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:23:40","slug":"parable-of-day-boundless-mercy-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/parable-of-day-boundless-mercy-of","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: Boundless Mercy of the Patriarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/125712.b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"651\" data-original-width=\"1000\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a Patriarch of Antioch named Alexander, known for his mercy and compassion. One of his secretaries stole several gold coins from him and ran to the Thebes of Egypt. While he was there in a remote place, barbarians caught him and took him into their territory. When Saint Alexander heard of the man\u2019s misfortune, he paid eighty-five gold coins in ransom to buy the captive\u2019s freedom.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the captive returned to Antioch, the Patriarch poured so many blessings on that man that some of the citizens said, \u201cAlexander\u2019s mercy cannot be overcome with any kind of wrongdoing.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Whoever pursues righteousness and lovefinds life, prosperity, and honor (Proverbs 21:21)<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><em>Translated by The Catalog of Good Deeds <\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a Patriarch of Antioch named Alexander, known for his mercy and compassion. One of his secretaries stole several gold coins from him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-and-parables","tag-orthodox-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":62,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768422197},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26976,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/26976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}