“Woe is he who abides in sin and can find no time for repentance, for in that place shall he repent, mourning his sins to no avail unto the ages.”
St. Ephraim the Syrian
Repentance does not mean just being sorry for something. It means changing of mind and intentions, thinking differently, acknowledging own unworthiness and seeing those who we offended as God’s image.
St. Ephraim the Syrian
Repentance does not mean just being sorry for something. It means changing of mind and intentions, thinking differently, acknowledging own unworthiness and seeing those who we offended as God’s image.
🌟 Prayer is the only propitiation and the bird of heaven, which on its wings can in the twinkling of an eye deliver to the mind messages from God and our Savior, in order to reconcile both sides and unite the Immaterial God with man, let us say, insignificant and material.
St. Joseph the Hesychast
Venerable Kazan Icon (Saint Petersburg) in the photo. Many of us stand in the queue to it from time to time.
St. Joseph the Hesychast
Venerable Kazan Icon (Saint Petersburg) in the photo. Many of us stand in the queue to it from time to time.
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. “