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06.03.202518:59
The current panorama of the ancient city where so many Martyrs shone. The land is becoming more and more Orthodox first due to immigration, but this way the citizens will have a chance to know about the true Faith.
06.03.202517:18
☦️🕯️“Fasting, prayer, alms, and every other good Christian deed is good in itself, but the purpose of the Christian life consists not only in the fulfillment of one or another of them. The true purpose of our Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. But fasting, prayer, alms and every good deed done for the sake of Christ is a means to the attainment of the Holy Spirit. Note that only good deeds done for the sake of Christ bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Everything else that is not done for the sake of Christ, even if it is good, does not bring us a reward in the life to come, not does it bring the grace of God in this life. This is why our Lord Jesus Christ said, ‘Whoever gathereth not with me scattereth’ (Matt. 12:30).🕯️☦️
♰ St. Seraphim of Sarov ♰
♰ St. Seraphim of Sarov ♰
06.03.202514:04
We are called to watch ourselves without justifying our sinful passions, looking on Christ and striving for righteousness .
“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. “, teaches Apostle Paul. What does it mean? -
“As far as you extend your efforts in behalf of piety, so far will the greatness of your soul extend through efforts and toils toward what the Lord urges us.” St. Gregory of Nyssa explains.
“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. “, teaches Apostle Paul. What does it mean? -
“As far as you extend your efforts in behalf of piety, so far will the greatness of your soul extend through efforts and toils toward what the Lord urges us.” St. Gregory of Nyssa explains.
06.03.202510:57
☦️⚡️ The time moves towards the Triumph of Orthodoxy. It's a very important feast. It's about the true Faith. Which alone can lead the person to salvation, and it's impossible without correct faith. Heretics do not inherit the Kingdom of God (Gal 5:20-21).
, such things can be heard in the West, and it's anti-scriptural, specifically a late anti-scriptural heresy.
On the contrary, the Bible itself puts the Holy Tradition #1, and the fact they don't know it (a concrete verse) shows that they are heretics who don't have any right even to speak about our book. The Orthodox Church wrote the book (Bible means book) and only she interprets it the correct way.
On the contrary, the Bible itself puts the Holy Tradition #1, and the fact they don't know it (a concrete verse) shows that they are heretics who don't have any right even to speak about our book. The Orthodox Church wrote the book (Bible means book) and only she interprets it the correct way.
05.03.202517:05
Great Lent didn't not always last for 40 days.
Before 4th century Christians fasted different amount of time according to their local customs and circumstances. Establishment of 40 days fasting before the Ressurection day has two main reasons. 1) remembrance of 40 days fasting of Christ in the desert 2) firstly only Catechumens fasted all 40 days before they could baptised. And eventually other Christians joined them.
Now the Great Lent consists of 40 days + Holy week (Passion week).
Restrictions also developed with time. First it was abstinence from all kind of food for some amount of days, then reducing amount of food (so the rest could go for almsgiving), now it is abstinence of some kinds of food. And of course it is not just about food.
Before 4th century Christians fasted different amount of time according to their local customs and circumstances. Establishment of 40 days fasting before the Ressurection day has two main reasons. 1) remembrance of 40 days fasting of Christ in the desert 2) firstly only Catechumens fasted all 40 days before they could baptised. And eventually other Christians joined them.
Now the Great Lent consists of 40 days + Holy week (Passion week).
Restrictions also developed with time. First it was abstinence from all kind of food for some amount of days, then reducing amount of food (so the rest could go for almsgiving), now it is abstinence of some kinds of food. And of course it is not just about food.
05.03.202512:56
☦️🌟 The Church of Resurrection. The whole city is called Voskresensk (from Voskresenye, Resurrection) after it.
06.03.202518:01
Very powerful words of St. John Kronstadt about final judgment. We got used to take it very lightly, especially in western reality. The Saint reminds us the truth.
“… prepare yourselves for the judgment, for the terrible judgment, for the righteous judgment, for the one and final judgment, after which there will be either eternal blessedness or unending torment...
Brother! Think, maybe this night your soul will be required of you (Luke 12:20), and you will be in hell, in torments … all in flames. Thus, be prepared for the judgment, start preparing today….
Go to Church, weep over your sins, await together with Her, with great fear, the day of judgment.” ( From the sermons on the Sunday of the Last Judgment)
“and He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead…”
“… prepare yourselves for the judgment, for the terrible judgment, for the righteous judgment, for the one and final judgment, after which there will be either eternal blessedness or unending torment...
Brother! Think, maybe this night your soul will be required of you (Luke 12:20), and you will be in hell, in torments … all in flames. Thus, be prepared for the judgment, start preparing today….
Go to Church, weep over your sins, await together with Her, with great fear, the day of judgment.” ( From the sermons on the Sunday of the Last Judgment)
“and He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead…”
06.03.202516:03
All we do in our spiritual life step by step is connected with each other. One thing produces another. It is pointless to wait for the final great result when you start your spiritual journey. IT is better to concentrate on each step.
“Strong faith in a man's heart both requires and produces prayer, and a prayer life of many years produces love. The goal of our life is nothing other than cleansing our heart to such an extent that it is able to sing with joy. Thus, prayer of the heart leads to joy of the heart. Nothing is difficult for a joyful person, because he has love.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“Strong faith in a man's heart both requires and produces prayer, and a prayer life of many years produces love. The goal of our life is nothing other than cleansing our heart to such an extent that it is able to sing with joy. Thus, prayer of the heart leads to joy of the heart. Nothing is difficult for a joyful person, because he has love.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
06.03.202512:31
☦️🙏 The ancient city of Ephesus. When the primate of Constantinople (Nestorius) introduced a heresy, the Church had to hold an Ecumenical Council to anathematize him, it happened there.
06.03.202510:55
Repentance is an essential part of spiritual life. Without repentance we stand still at the least, but more often we turn on the downward path.
That is why during the Great Lent we pay so much attention to renewing and deepening our repentance state of mind.
“O Lord, Thou hast appointed repentance for me a sinner, wishing in Thy boundless mercy to save me though unworthy. I fall down before Thee and I pray: Humble my soul through fasting, for I flee to Thee for refuge, who alone art rich in mercy.” - Aposticha for Matins on Thursday of the First Week
That is why during the Great Lent we pay so much attention to renewing and deepening our repentance state of mind.
“O Lord, Thou hast appointed repentance for me a sinner, wishing in Thy boundless mercy to save me though unworthy. I fall down before Thee and I pray: Humble my soul through fasting, for I flee to Thee for refuge, who alone art rich in mercy.” - Aposticha for Matins on Thursday of the First Week
05.03.202517:02
From church fathers teachings we learn that the joy about ressurection should not extinguish Christ's sufferings and His death on the Cross.. So we need this time to remember and experience those events in our hearts, to repent, to clean ourselves, attain virtues, examine ourselves and learn self-control and get ready for the biggest day - the Ressurection.
All this period our will is centered on fighting with sin by prayer, abstention, almsgiving, other acts of mercy.
All this period our will is centered on fighting with sin by prayer, abstention, almsgiving, other acts of mercy.
05.03.202512:01
The Great Lent is a special time of church life including service life. Usual full liturgy is not celebrated during weekdays of the Lent. It is related to the fact that Liturgy is the most joyful service. But in order to save the opportunity for the faithful to participate in Holy Communion during such challenging time as the Great Lent is, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is served.
06.03.202517:47
Theotokion: Mother of God, hope and intercessor of those who sing of thee, take from me the heavy yoke of sin, and as thou art our pure Lady, accept me who repent.
06.03.202515:59
Eirmos: See, see that I am God, Who rained manna and made water spout from the rock of old for my people in the wilderness, by My right hand, and by My strength alone.
06.03.202512:03
The first week of Great Lent is in its middle. It is a special time of prayer and strict abstinence in order to heal our corrupted sinful state and renew our spiritual life. It is a special time of reading in the first four days the Great Canon of Repentance of St. Andrew of Crete. All of it is possible even being far away from Church.
“Receiving the shining rays of abstinence, O my soul, become as lightning, and flee from the obscurity of sin: that through the divine Spirit the light of forgiveness may illuminate thee as the rising sun.” - From the canon for Matins on Thursday of the First Week
“Receiving the shining rays of abstinence, O my soul, become as lightning, and flee from the obscurity of sin: that through the divine Spirit the light of forgiveness may illuminate thee as the rising sun.” - From the canon for Matins on Thursday of the First Week
05.03.202520:48
☦️🕯️“Let thy mind fast from vain thoughts; let thy memory fast from remembering evil; let thy will fast from evil desire; let thine eyes fast from bad sights: turn away thine eyes that thou mayest not see vanity; let thine
ears fast from vile songs and slanderous whispers; let thy tongue fast from slander,
condemnation,blasphemy, falsehood, deception, foul language and every idle and rotten word; let thy hands fast from killing and from stealing another’s goods; let thy legs fast from going to evil deeds: Turn away from evil, and do good.”🕯️☦️
♰ St. Tikhon of Zadonsk♰
ears fast from vile songs and slanderous whispers; let thy tongue fast from slander,
condemnation,blasphemy, falsehood, deception, foul language and every idle and rotten word; let thy hands fast from killing and from stealing another’s goods; let thy legs fast from going to evil deeds: Turn away from evil, and do good.”🕯️☦️
♰ St. Tikhon of Zadonsk♰
05.03.202515:34
🌟☦️ The Lent is a good time to approach reading of the Book of one of the most enigmatic Saints, St. Daniel, and his great prophesies.
St. Daniel, pray for us!
St. Daniel, pray for us!
05.03.202510:44
In the Monastery of St. Sophrony Smirnov. In the atheist time the local police officer ordered to bulldozer his grave out. The faithful reported that both the officer and bulldozer operator died soon in two different accidents. The site is not far from Sarov.
06.03.202517:31
The Great Canon is more astonishing than any other liturgical text encountered during Great Lent. It is a marvel of liturgical hymnography, with texts of amazing power and poetic beauty. The Church decided to call it the Great Canon not so much for its length (250 troparia, or verses), as for the quality and power of its content. St. Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, who composed the Canon in the 7th Century, also composed many other canons used by the Church over the course of the liturgical year.
The Great Canon consists of a conversation between the penitent and his own soul. The conversation begins:
“Where shall I begin to weep for the actions of my wretched life? What first-fruit shall I offer O Christ in this my lamentation? But in Thy compassion grant me forgiveness of sins.” – with what shall I begin to repent, for it is so difficult.
A marvelous troparion follows:
“Come wretched soul, with thy flesh to the Creator of all. Make confession to Him, and abstain henceforth from thy past brutishness; and offer to God tears of repentance.”
The words are astonishing, containing both Christian anthropology and asceticism: our flesh, an inseparable part of human nature and being, must also participate in our repentance.
The apogee of this conversation with the soul, its constant unremitting call to repentance, comes in the kontakion sung following the 6th canticle of the Canon:
“My soul, O my soul, rise up! Why art thou sleeping? The end draws near and soon thou shalt be troubled. Watch, then, that Christ thy God may spare thee, for He is everywhere present and fillest all things.”
The Great Canon consists of a conversation between the penitent and his own soul. The conversation begins:
“Where shall I begin to weep for the actions of my wretched life? What first-fruit shall I offer O Christ in this my lamentation? But in Thy compassion grant me forgiveness of sins.” – with what shall I begin to repent, for it is so difficult.
A marvelous troparion follows:
“Come wretched soul, with thy flesh to the Creator of all. Make confession to Him, and abstain henceforth from thy past brutishness; and offer to God tears of repentance.”
The words are astonishing, containing both Christian anthropology and asceticism: our flesh, an inseparable part of human nature and being, must also participate in our repentance.
The apogee of this conversation with the soul, its constant unremitting call to repentance, comes in the kontakion sung following the 6th canticle of the Canon:
“My soul, O my soul, rise up! Why art thou sleeping? The end draws near and soon thou shalt be troubled. Watch, then, that Christ thy God may spare thee, for He is everywhere present and fillest all things.”
06.03.202515:53
I fall prostrate before Thee, O Jesus. I have sinned against Thee, be merciful to me. Take from me the heavy yoke of sin, and in Thy compassion grant me tears of compunction.
The Great Canon
The Great Canon
06.03.202511:34
Vegetables are healthy and good every period of the year, especially during the Lent https://dzen.ru/shorts/67ba2fc6904747545dde8a13
05.03.202519:03
Our life is a time to choose. All things we do and choose in our life and have as a result are based on whether we are with God or not. “Through His unspeakable goodness, God gave to the fallen man a Redeemer and redemption. But the redeemed man is still free: free either to make use of the redemption given him and to return to Paradise, or to reject redemption and remain numbered among the fallen angels. His entire life on earth is the time given to man to express his will.”
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
05.03.202514:01
No one (except probably some protestant churches) promises a perfect life for those who start their path in faith. But we know for sure that our struggles are worth it, and that we are not alone.
“Those who are trying to lead a spiritual life have to carry on a most skillful and difficult warfare, through their thoughts, every moment of their life—that is, a spiritual warfare; it is necessary that our whole soul should be every moment a clear eye, able to watch and notice the thoughts entering our heart from the evil one and repel them; the hearts of such men should be always burning with faith, humility and love”
St. John of Kronstadt
“Those who are trying to lead a spiritual life have to carry on a most skillful and difficult warfare, through their thoughts, every moment of their life—that is, a spiritual warfare; it is necessary that our whole soul should be every moment a clear eye, able to watch and notice the thoughts entering our heart from the evil one and repel them; the hearts of such men should be always burning with faith, humility and love”
St. John of Kronstadt
05.03.202509:00
Surprisingly even fasting food can turn into the sin of gluttony and overeating. To avoid it fasting food should be made the simpler the better, without trying to fake “meat taste” with other products, or spending whole time for cooking. And we should be watchful to ourselves putting our focus to spiritual food more.
“No one whose stomach is full can fight mentally against the demon of unchastity. Our initial struggle therefore must be to gain control of our stomach and to bring our body into subjection not only through fasting but also through vigils, labours and spiritual reading, and through concentrating our heart on fear of Gehenna and on longing for the Kingdom of Heaven.”
St John Cassian
“No one whose stomach is full can fight mentally against the demon of unchastity. Our initial struggle therefore must be to gain control of our stomach and to bring our body into subjection not only through fasting but also through vigils, labours and spiritual reading, and through concentrating our heart on fear of Gehenna and on longing for the Kingdom of Heaven.”
St John Cassian
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