In Vologda, a strongly Orthodox northern region. Many saints lived there, a number in 15th century in particular.
Shame is normal at the Confession, the more shameful, the more salvific. The devil hates Confession most of all. It's possible to take Communion and stayed uncommuned, as St. Seraphim of Sarov and a number of others explained, but true Confession breaks the chains upon which the enemy counts, and sets the soul free to go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
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A Russian boy was attacked by big man. The Christian attitude is nothing like giving up to violence, the latter is a teaching of Leo Tolstoy, who was officially excommunicated for his heresy.
☦️🕯️Schema monk, in the Orthodox Church is a monk who has reached the highest level of monasticism, called the Great Schema. This level symbolizes the culmination of spiritual perfection and complete dedication to a life of prayer, asceticism, and renunciation of worldly desires.
Monks of the Great Schema are seen as imitating the angelic state through their complete dedication to prayer and struggle against sin and passions.🕯️☦️
Monks of the Great Schema are seen as imitating the angelic state through their complete dedication to prayer and struggle against sin and passions.🕯️☦️
“Be extremely careful not to offend anyone in word or deed, for it is a grave sin. When someone is offended, God, Who loves the man, is also offended, for there can be no offending man without offending God.”
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
This something to think about.
Often we consider others around us guilty in all kind of things, while we don’t see the beam in our own eye. We hardly consider other people’s pain, fears, feelings, only thinking about ourselves.
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
This something to think about.
Often we consider others around us guilty in all kind of things, while we don’t see the beam in our own eye. We hardly consider other people’s pain, fears, feelings, only thinking about ourselves.
“If you give in to complaining and begin to blame people and circumstances for your hardships, then you will eventually come to murmur against God and may become totally despondent. May the Lord preserve you from this!”
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev
One of the best examples of faithfulness, patience, humility and trust in God’s Providence is the Righteous Job the Long-Suffering (read the book of Job in the Old Testament) .
“Job teaches us that we must endure life’s adversities patiently and with trust in God. “
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev
One of the best examples of faithfulness, patience, humility and trust in God’s Providence is the Righteous Job the Long-Suffering (read the book of Job in the Old Testament) .
“Job teaches us that we must endure life’s adversities patiently and with trust in God. “
“When during prayer the enemy suggests within you a craving for food, despise this material, nervous irritation, strengthen your heart more powerfully by prayer, inflame it by faith and love, and say to the tempter the following words of the Lord: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Prayer is my best food, fortifying and enlightening both the soul and the body.”
St.John of Kronstadt
St.John of Kronstadt
🙏☦️💫 St Elizabeth was the elder sister of St Alexandra Romanova, and was married to the Grand Duke Sergey, the governor of Moscow. She converted to Orthodoxy from Protestantism of her own free will, and organized women from all levels of society
to help the soldiers at the front and in the hospitals.
Grand Duke Sergey was killed by an assassin’s bomb in 1905, just as St Elizabeth was leaving for her workshops. Remarkably, she visited her husband’s killer in prison and urged him to repent.
After this, she began to withdraw from her former social life. She devoted herself to the Convent of Sts Martha and Mary, a community of nuns which focused on worshiping God and also helping the poor. She moved out of the palace into a building she purchased on Ordinka. Women from the nobility, and also from the common people, were attracted to the convent.
Saint Elizabeth nursed sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals and on the battle front. On Pascha of 1918, the Communists ordered her to leave Moscow, and join the royal family near Ekaterinburg. She left with a novice, Sister Varvara, and an escort of Latvian guards.
After arriving in Ekaterinburg, Saint Elizabeth was denied access to the Tsar’s family. She was placed in a convent, where she was warmly received by the sisters.
At the end of May Saint Elizabeth was moved to nearby Alopaevsk with the Grand Dukes Sergey, John, and Constantine, and the young Count Vladimir Paley. They were all housed in a schoolhouse on the edge of town. Saint Elizabeth was under guard, but was permitted to go to church and work in the garden.
On the night of July 5, they were all taken to a place twelve miles from Alopaevsk, and executed. The Grand Duke Sergey was shot, but the others were thrown down a mineshaft, then grenades were tossed after them. Saint Elizabeth lived for several hours, and could be heard singing hymns.
The bodies of Sts Elizabeth and Varvara were taken to Jerusalem in 1920, and buried in the church of St Mary Magdalene.
Sts Elizabeth and Varvara, pray for us!
Grand Duke Sergey was killed by an assassin’s bomb in 1905, just as St Elizabeth was leaving for her workshops. Remarkably, she visited her husband’s killer in prison and urged him to repent.
After this, she began to withdraw from her former social life. She devoted herself to the Convent of Sts Martha and Mary, a community of nuns which focused on worshiping God and also helping the poor. She moved out of the palace into a building she purchased on Ordinka. Women from the nobility, and also from the common people, were attracted to the convent.
Saint Elizabeth nursed sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals and on the battle front. On Pascha of 1918, the Communists ordered her to leave Moscow, and join the royal family near Ekaterinburg. She left with a novice, Sister Varvara, and an escort of Latvian guards.
After arriving in Ekaterinburg, Saint Elizabeth was denied access to the Tsar’s family. She was placed in a convent, where she was warmly received by the sisters.
At the end of May Saint Elizabeth was moved to nearby Alopaevsk with the Grand Dukes Sergey, John, and Constantine, and the young Count Vladimir Paley. They were all housed in a schoolhouse on the edge of town. Saint Elizabeth was under guard, but was permitted to go to church and work in the garden.
On the night of July 5, they were all taken to a place twelve miles from Alopaevsk, and executed. The Grand Duke Sergey was shot, but the others were thrown down a mineshaft, then grenades were tossed after them. Saint Elizabeth lived for several hours, and could be heard singing hymns.
The bodies of Sts Elizabeth and Varvara were taken to Jerusalem in 1920, and buried in the church of St Mary Magdalene.
Sts Elizabeth and Varvara, pray for us!