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The Good Life: Orthodox Great Lent<\/strong> Noel Debien with Helen Metlenko, teacher, wife of a Russian Orthodox Priest and mother of three children<\/strong><\/p>\n THIS EPISODE<\/p>\n For the Orthodox, not unlike Western Christians, the education of “desire” into healthy directions is one key to the Christian Spiritual life, and in the 40 days of Lent leading up to Easter, fasting; prayer and almsgiving are undertaken by many Christians. The Russian Orthodox follow the Julian calendar, and count the Sundays as days of lent also…<\/p>\n For the full interview and to download or listen to the podcast click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Good Life: Orthodox Great Lent 29\/03\/2009 Noel Debien with Helen Metlenko, teacher, wife of a Russian Orthodox Priest and mother of three children THIS EPISODE For the Orthodox, not unlike Western Christians, the education of “desire” into healthy directions is one key to the Christian Spiritual life, and inContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[64,38],"class_list":["entry","author-webmaster","has-more-link","post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-english","category-parish-news","tag-helen-metlenko","tag-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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