He Loves Mankind ☦️
20.04.202523:02
Christ is Risen! Indeed, He is Risen!
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Xрїсто́съ воскре́се! Вои́стинꙋ воскре́се!
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Xрїсто́съ воскре́се! Вои́стинꙋ воскре́се!
19.04.202519:42
Forestalling the dawn, the women came with Mary, and found the stone rolled away from the tomb, and heard from the angel: Why seek ye among the dead, as though He were mortal, Him Who liveth in everlasting light? Behold the grave-clothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen and hath slain death. For He is the Son of God Who saveth mankind.
10.04.202501:04
"Through genuine love for God we can drive out the passions. Love for God is this: to choose Him rather than the world ..."
+ St Maximos the Confessor
+ St Maximos the Confessor
05.04.202512:47
"The struggle of the righteous here is temporary; but victory and future rewards are eternal."
+ St Basil the Great
+ St Basil the Great
01.04.202511:10
"Preserve by every means simplicity of heart, simplicity of faith, hope and love, of meekness, humility and gentleness. Every good comes from God, and God is every good for us. This is the simplicity of faith, hope, and love."
+ St John of Kronstadt
+ St John of Kronstadt
29.03.202516:56
"When you are praying, watch over yourself so that not only your outward man prays, but your inward one also. Though you are sinful beyond measure, still pray. Do not heed the devil’s provocation, craftiness, and despair, but overcome and conquer his wiles. Remember the abyss of the Saviour’s mercy and love to mankind. The devil will represent the Lord’s fact to you as terrible and unmerciful, rejecting your prayer and repentance; but remember the Saviour’s own words, full of every hope and boldness for us: Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out’; andCome unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden’ – with sins and iniquities, and wiles and calumnies of the devil – and I will give you rest.'”
+ St John of Kronstadt
+ St John of Kronstadt
20.04.202514:52
"With God’s help, we safely crossed the sea of Great Lent and reached the radiant days of the Lord’s Pascha. May the present celebration, for which we have been preparing with prayer and fasting, renew a right spirit, that is, a healthy spirit, in our hearts, that we might understand the mystery of Christ’s Resurrection, to enjoy the "riches of goodness" of which Chrysostom writes, and to anticipate "eternal joy"! Let us give praise to the Savior as the destroyer of hades and death and, embracing one another with a holy kiss, let us be comforted by the common spiritual joy in Him, in accordance with the Apostle’s admonition: "Rejoice, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you" (II Cor. 13:11).
+ Met Nicholas, First Hierarch of ROCOR
+ Met Nicholas, First Hierarch of ROCOR
19.04.202511:59
"Arise, O God, judge the earth; For to Thee belong all the nations."
+ Psalm 81 on Holy Saturday
(This psalm is about God standing up in the divine council—that is, among the angelic powers He created, called here “the congregation of gods”—and judging them. And to the wicked, rebellious ones, He accuses them of failing to do what He created them for but instead being evil, and then He declares that they will die. And then the final lines calls upon Him to render that judgment, because He is going to “inherit among all the nations.” FrASD)
+ Psalm 81 on Holy Saturday
(This psalm is about God standing up in the divine council—that is, among the angelic powers He created, called here “the congregation of gods”—and judging them. And to the wicked, rebellious ones, He accuses them of failing to do what He created them for but instead being evil, and then He declares that they will die. And then the final lines calls upon Him to render that judgment, because He is going to “inherit among all the nations.” FrASD)
07.04.202521:23
"The will of God is not always easy to discern, but it is always good, and it is always directed towards our salvation."
+ St Tikhon of Moscow
+ St Tikhon of Moscow
04.04.202501:35
"We are blessed, for our Lord has come. He has come for our sake. He likened himself to His people and came to His people for their sake. He came to save the sinners, which means us, for we are among the sinners. He came to redeem the dead, which means us, for we are among the dead. Blessed is the Lord who came to save the sinners and to redeem the dead!"
+ St Tikhon of Zadonsk
+ St Tikhon of Zadonsk
31.03.202521:04
"Adam, God's first-formed man, transgressed: could God not at once have brought death upon him? But see what the Lord does, in His great love towards man. He casts him out from Paradise, for because of sin he was unworthy to live there; but He puts him to dwell over against Paradise: that seeing whence he had fallen, and from what and into what a state he was brought down, he might afterwards be saved by repentance."
+ St Cyril of Jerusalem
+ St Cyril of Jerusalem
29.03.202502:54
"The Most Holy Mother of God prays for us ceaselessly. She is always visiting us. Whenever we turn to her in our heart, she is there. After the Lord, she is the greatest protection for mankind."
+ Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
+ Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
20.04.202508:09
Christ is Risen!
18.04.202512:16
"Thou hast redeemed us from the curse of the Law by Thy precious Blood. By being nailed to the Cross and pierced with the Spear, Thou hast poured immortality on mankind. O our Saviour, glory to Thee."
07.04.202514:54
Today is the crown of our salvation,/ and the revelation of the mystery which is from before the ages!/ The Son of God becometh the Son of the Virgin,/ and Gabriel announceth the glad tidings of grace./ Wherefore, with him let us cry out to the Theotokos:/ Rejoice, O thou who art full of grace!// The Lord is with thee!
02.04.202510:02
"When God in His love condemned Adam to death after his transgression, he first experienced this death in his soul (Gen. 3:19): his spiritual and deathless organs of perception, deprived of their celestial and spiritual enjoyment, were quenched and became as though dead. Later, after 930 years (Gen. 5:5), came the death of the body. Similarly, now that God has reconciled mankind through the Cross and death of the Savior, He restores to the truly believing soul its enjoyment of spiritual light and mystery while it is still in the flesh, and once more enlightens its spiritual organs of perception with the divine light of grace. Later He will invest the body also with deathless and incorruptible glory."
+ St Makarios the Great
+ St Makarios the Great
30.03.202521:47
"The Cross means one's willingness to benevolently endure any struggle sent to us by the Providence of God. That is why it is said by St Isaac that when a man is constantly beset by struggles he is under a special Providence of God. Drink up slander any hour of the day like living water, said John of the Ladder; whoever rejected a correct or incorrect reprimand has also rejected salvation. The Lord remembers you by sending you temptations."
+ St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
+ St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
28.03.202500:18
"Faith is the unveiling of the understanding. When the mind is darkened, faith is hidden..."
+ St Isaac the Syrian
+ St Isaac the Syrian
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Rural Orthodoxy☦
19.04.202520:40
God wants that all men be saved, that is why He descended into Hades to save those who lived on earth before His coming. For, had He not descended into Hades, an enormous number of righteous souls would have perished forever. And yet, had He not descended into Hades, the main habitat of evil against God and the human race, Hades would have remained undestroyed. Therefore, the two reasons which motivated Christ, the Giver-of-Life, to descend into Hades in the Spirit are: First, to destroy the nest of the powers of Hades and, Second, to bring from Hades to Heaven, the souls of ancestors, prophets and righteous men and women, who have fulfilled the Old Dispensation (The Old Law of God) and, by that, pleased God. Before Satan was totally jubilant at gazing upon Christ humiliated and lifeless on the Cross, Christ appeared alive and almighty in the midst of Hades, the primary abode of Satan. What unexpected and dreadful news for Satan! For three years, Satan wove snares against Christ on earth, and in three days, behold, Christ destroyed Satan's kingdom and carried away the most precious booty in the form of a swarm of righteous souls.
O Lord, You want all men to be saved. We pray to You, save even us. For there is no salvation nor Savior outside of You. In You do we hope, You alone do we worship, You, the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and always. Amen
St. Nikolaj Velimirović
O Lord, You want all men to be saved. We pray to You, save even us. For there is no salvation nor Savior outside of You. In You do we hope, You alone do we worship, You, the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and always. Amen
St. Nikolaj Velimirović
17.04.202509:40
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
+ Our Lord Jesus Christ (St John 13:34)
+ Our Lord Jesus Christ (St John 13:34)
06.04.202520:45
"We can’t see the future—but know this, that if you love God and His Orthodox Church and your fellow man—God can and will use you."
+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina
+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina
02.04.202502:11
"It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints."
+ St Philaret of Moscow
+ St Philaret of Moscow
30.03.202517:28
"God rests within gentle hearts. The gentle and merciful shall sit fearless in His regions, and will inherit Heavenly glory."
+ St John of the Ladder
+ St John of the Ladder
27.03.202501:41
"Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love."
+ St Benedict of Nursia
+ St Benedict of Nursia
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