{"id":4691,"date":"2026-11-08T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/prayers\/axion-estin\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:22","slug":"axion-estin","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/prayers\/axion-estin\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Truly Right (Axion Estin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is truly right to bless you, O Theotokos, ever blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim, without defilement you gave birth to God the Word. True Theotokos, we magnify you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">The second part, &#8222;More honorable than the cherubim,&#8220; was written by Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer. Tradition holds that the Archangel Gabriel taught the first part to a monk of Karyes on Mount Athos in the tenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hymn to the Theotokos sung at the end of many services, revealed by the Archangel Gabriel on Mount Athos according to tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","liturgical_season":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4691","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"liturgical_season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/liturgical_season?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}