{"id":87469,"date":"2026-01-15T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:56:08","slug":"celebrating-orthodox-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87469\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Orthodox Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nativity Icon was on display during the Eve of the Nativity of Christ services at St. John\u2019s Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield on Jan. 6. Orthodox Christmas was celebrated on Jan. 7 by many Eastern Orthodox Christians following the Julian calendar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Father Nathaniel Sorochka holds up the Nativity icon during the Eve of the Nativity of Christ at St. John's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield Tuesday, January 6, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-L-RUSSIANXMAS-0107-07.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1514057\" \/>The Rev. Nathaniel Sorochka holds up the Nativity icon during the Eve of the Nativity of Christ services at St. John&#8217;s Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield on Jan. 6. (SEAN MCKEAG\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nativity Icon was on display during the Eve of the Nativity of Christ services at St. John\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,3102,28,178,180,179,3098,3053,3054],"class_list":{"0":"post-87469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-mayfield","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-upvalley","15":"tag-valley-advantage","16":"tag-valley-advantage-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}