Dostoevsky says the soul is healed by being with children, because we experience what we were and what we ought to be now. For children everyone is their friend, and no one is their enemy. Meanwhile we are stuck in the opposite. We must become like children again through Christ.
Rather quietly, Eastern Orthodoxy in Africa is slowly growing especially in Uganda. Definitive numbers are difficult to measure, but it is estimated that Africa is rivaling America in number of total converts.
The faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remain steadfast in the face of persecution, as the government plans their bills to attempt to ban the UOC.
Kovilje Monastery, Abbot Ambrose.
“I am not a saint, nor wonder-worker, the whole story was understood incorrectly. I am not domesticating the animals, rather they accepted me & I, while befriending them, found answers. Some things I can’t explain, they can’t be put into words.”
Orthodox Subdeacon protects bishop from a soldier. During a liturgy in the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytsky a Ukrainian soldeir stormed the cathedral and threw the Holy Bible threatening the bishop.
The Miracle of the Myrrhstreaming Hawaiian Iveron Icon. Like the Holy Fire, this is recognized by the Holy Orthodox Church as a genuine miracle. The oil has miraculously healed many people who have touched it.
Red eggs are an Orthodox tradition dating to apostolic times, Mary Magdalene brought cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus Christ, and that the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she witnessed the risen Christ.
In the center of the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem, underneath the largest dome, lies the Holy Sepulchre itself. This is the literal place that Jesus Christ died and was buried before His glorious Resurrection.
I present to you, Ukraine, funded by US taxpayers to persecute Orthodox Christians. Please continue to pray for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Metropolitan Onuphrey.
In what is reminiscent of the first 300 years of Christianity from the Incarnation, believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church hold Divine Liturgy in the forest as their church was taken from them.
The community is in Trebukhiv.
Nothing stops the Faith.
The art of spiritual warfare says St. Porphyrios; is less about waging war with demons. It’s about being indifferent to them. This can only be done through divine grace by approaching Christ. When temptations come, instead of turning to fight the demons, simply turn to Christ.
The Ukraine government has adopted the bill no. 8371 which bans the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). The vote was 267 to 15.
“Christianity is greatest when it’s hated by the world.” - St. Ignatius of Antioch
Please write your local congressmen and most of all, pray.
Fr. Moses Berry of blessed memory speaking about his first encounter with the Orthodox Church, at St. Cyprian’s of Carthage in Richmond, Virginia.
He states seeing the Church where people of all ethnicity are represented and can achieve sainthood moved him deeply.
Beauty transcends aesthetics, it is not just being outwardly beautiful. For Fyodor Dostoevsky & Orthodox Christianity, beauty is Truth. And Truth is a Person. Beauty will save the world means Christ will save the world. Because Christ is the true embodiment of beauty.
If you wanna be truly Catholic or Orthodox, most of you shouldn’t be studying Scripture or theology. According to traditional Catholicism/Orthodoxy, that’s for clergy. The idea of laymen studying the Bible and tradition is a PROTESTANT idea
“You don’t become holy by fighting evil. Let evil be. Look towards Christ and that will save you. What makes a person saintly is love.”
— St. Porphyrios (actual recording of his voice)
“The Christian Faith is not a doctrinal system, but a way of restoration for fallen man.”
+ St. Theophan The Recluse
Today is my names day. Holy St. Theophan pray to God for us!
“The Church is a hospital, and not a courtroom, for souls. She does not condemn on behalf of sins, but grants remission of sins. Nothing is so joyous in our life as the thanksgiving that we experience in the Church.”
+ St. John Chrysostom
Bad week for Roman Catholics:
- Peter Dimond proves inconsistency within Catholicism
- Pope wears symbol of an ancient pagan deity
- Synod posts about approving same sex unions with women priests implied in the photos
“If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1854, "Letter To Mme. N. D. Fonvisin", p. 71
“The evils of our times are so great, that sometimes we lose sight of the great power of what we have to oppose them with.”
+ St. Seraphim Rose of Platina +
Holy Orthodoxy is growing rapidly since 2020, part of the influx I believe can be attributed to a crisis of meaning; and the Orthodox Church having the answer to the meaning of our lives; communion with God.
If your entire goal of interest in Orthodoxy is just because it’s based, traditional, and is a haven from leftists you’re coming for the wrong reasons. Orthodoxy is Christ. Leave the dialectical baggage at the door, the entire point of your interest should be communion with God.
Fr. Daniel Sysoev is a martyr for the faith, and known as an evangelist to Muslims. He speaks here about the difference between the Christian God and the islamic god is that the Christian God is all loving even to those who hate Him.