☦️🕯️"My children, prayer and humility are the all-powerful weapons which we must keep continuously in our hands with sleepless attentiveness, because these, with God's help, will give us the victory against the demons."🕯️☦️

♰ Saint Ephraim of Arizona ♰

⚡️ Shame always produces fear (blessed memory Archpriest Sergey Muratov). After the Fall the first people felt shame, and also from that time fear became inseparable from human nature.

🌟☦️ If you wish to pray, you have need of God, 'Who gives prayer to him who prays' (1 Sam 2:9 LXX). Invoke Him, then, saying: 'Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come' (Mt 6:9-10) — that is, the Holy Spirit and Thy only-begotten Son. For so He taught us, saying: 'Worship the Father in spirit and in truth' (Jn 4: 24).
Philokalia

🌟 No one can attain state [of dispassion] as this swiftly or easily: it can only be reached by way of many hardships and struggles, after much time and diligence, testing and temptation, thus bringing one to the full measure of dispassion. It is he who has thus been sifted by every kind of suffering and tribulation, and who has courageously endured all the trials of evil, that is finally found worthy to receive the great blessings, gifts and riches of the Spirit and to inherit the kingdom of heaven.
St Makarios the Great

One of our everyday tasks is to struggle passions. And Saints teach us how.
“If you share secretly in the joy of someone you envy, you will be freed from your jealousy; and you will also be freed from your jealousy if you keep silent about the person you envy.”
- St. Thalassios the Libyan

There is no a ticket to Heaven. The path of faith has to be taken. And this path has its ups and downs, joys and difficulties.
“Don’t be sad, my child. Don’t worry so much. Even though you have fallen again, get up again. You have been called to a Heavenly Road. It is not surprising for someone running to stumble. It just takes patience and repentance at every moment.”
- Saint Joseph the Hesychast

“Though the Christian Prays alone, he has the Choir of the Saints standing with him.”
Saint Clement of Alexandria
Saints, martyrs , generations of faithful are voices of those who knows the price of the faith and the Truth. Their prayers are especially valuable.

People at all times often think about meaning and purpose of life. They look for it everywhere, but the answer is not far away.
“If you return to the Grace of the Image which was planted in you at the beginning, you will find what you look for within you.”
Saint Gregory of Nyssa

☦️🌟 The Christian labors to bloody sweat to acquire first traces of the virtue of humility, but when it starts happening, it's a start of becoming God's child.

☦️🕯️"We define that the Holy Icons should be exhibited in the Holy Churches of God and in houses. They should be kissed and are an object of veneration and honour — He who venerates the Icon, venerates in it the reality for which it stands.”
The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787)🕯️☦️

☦️🕯️“Grant me torrents of tears, O most pure one, to cleanse my soul from impurity. I offer the groans of my heart to thee unceasingly, strive for me, O Sovereign Lady. Accept my service of supplication and offer it to compassionate God.”🕯️☦️

☦️🕯️"God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or anyone else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves."🕯️☦️

♰ St John Chrysostom ♰

A shining example of steadfastness in faith, tranquility, and confidence in God's providence.
The Abbess of the Pühtitsa Assumption Stavropegic Convent, Filareta.
Some leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church can learn from this mother.


The Pühtitsa Assumption Monastery is an Orthodox female monastery located  in the village of Kuremäe. This is one of the main Orthodox pilgrimage sites in Estonia. The history of the monastery is closely connected with the names of the associates of the church – St. John of Kronstadt and the late Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and all Rus'


Monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church express support to abbess and sisters of Pühtitsa Dormition Convent in Estonia

🙏🌟☦️ St. Clement the Pope of Rome was documentarily the first Apostle who reached the territory of Russia. He did not only spread the Gospel and lived, but also died there in Crimea.