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2022-03-01 22:46:33 "The global elites have been conspiring with one another to change and control the world. They want to re-establish this world, but in a faustian, cunning and utopian way. A world that promises liberation, but brings captivity; which promises eternal health, but which overwhelms hospitals; which promises happiness only if you are deprived of all things natural. In fact, this "reset" is a lot like what we Romanians experienced just a few decades ago. A world of control, surveillance, rationing and scarcity. Of planned deprivations, a permanent state of terror, of domination by division. We used to call it communism. And now it has returned, this time in a new form and with the help of new technologies."

Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe Open / Comment

2022-03-01 15:53:56 “Thus, God Dwells In Us”

Your relationship with God—if you feel that God has answered you—is a special bond which cannot be explained. However, if I would try to define faith, prayer, and the mercy of God, I would only be using words of human reasoning that have nothing to do with God Who is above all reasoning. God is outside of the world—He is only found in love. I cannot explain all of these things to you because they cannot be explained. They form part of a mystical relationship of man with God, which someone may feel or may not feel, may practice or may not practice. There is no middle way.

It is not possible to speak today with God, tomorrow to curse Him, the next day to praise Him, and so on. You need to have a direct line in your relationship with God: a line of faith, of your nothingness before God, and of understanding that you are nothing before God because of your sinfulness, not because God did not create you pure. God created you pure, but you have defiled yourself with sins, you have wallowed in all sorts of filth, and you have damaged your heart, soul, and mind. Your mind works against the good, your heart has grown cold towards God, and it no longer loves anyone—you are hardened. All of these things change your relationship with God; they wear it out and break it.

We need to repair this bond through love, striving, and prayer. Let us have love for God and for our neighbor because it is not possible for someone to say that he loves God, Whom he has not seen, and not to love his neighbor whom he has seen (cf. 1 John 4:20). It is impossible to love God and not our neighbor. Our relationship with God has one end in our heart and one end in His hand. Through this relationship of faith, love, and good works, we enter into the will of God, and God abides in us. It is, as I have said, difficult to explain. Only those of us who have faith, who have striven on the road of life at least to do good little-by-little and to strengthen ourselves in faith, have established this relationship. But I do not say that it is permanent. We may break it with our sins, but there still exists a spiritual channel through which we can speak with God.

/// Fr. George Calciu

Excerpt from “Without This Suffering I Am Nothing” Open / Comment

2022-03-01 14:22:32 This “war” being used as cover for the ongoing orchestrated and rapid collapse of the global economy via payment processing shut downs, international trade halting, airline balkanization etc is absolutely obvious at this point, and the fact that this is happening on the backed of the COVID op is no coincidence.

This benefits no one but the faceless bankers and their demonic counterparts.

Whatever “Phoenix”, whatever digital system, whatever Global governance project, whatever antichrist that rises from these ashes is not to be trusted let alone supported by anyone with a Christian worldview.

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2022-02-27 18:08:32 If you are still choosing sides presented to you by the technocrats as either “good” or “evil” then you aren’t getting it… Open / Comment

2022-02-27 16:40:37 WHY IS MAN SO CARELESS ABOUT HIS PERISHING SOUL?

Homily by Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky) on The Sunday of the Last Judgment

They remember better what occupies them, what is more pleasant to them. They forget about the Last Judgment, because the memory of it could destroy the joys of earthly life; they forget about it, thinking that it’s a long way off to the Judgment and no one knows when it will be.

Just as people do not worry about earthquakes that will not come soon—so they think—or that will come at an undetermined time, so neither do they worry about the coming Judgment, and their unbelief only hardens their careless state.

Just as people before the Flood did not want to believe Noah’s preaching, so also now do people remain in negligent unbelief—especially since modern science very often suggests that the Flood and the Last Judgment are just empty fairy tales. They think, “How can the Judgment be so terrible if the Judge is Christ, Who is filled with such great love for people, with meekness and forgiveness?” But this meekness will only increase our fear of the Judge.

If a sinner who lives on earth is so afraid of a righteous one that he tries to keep his distance from him and not meet up with him, then how will he meet face to face with Christ, the meek and sinless Righteous One, when he remembers all the acts he committed that angered Christ, all the days of his life? The meek countenance of Christ will be a pure mirror in which all the impurity and unrighteousness of their lives will be reflected!

And although the Lord’s countenance remains unchangeably meek, won’t this very meekness gather burning coals on the heads of sinners (Prov. 25:22; Rom. 12:20)? Woe to them in whose hearts these burning coals do not ignite flaming repentance during earthly life.

Because of their stony-heartedness, these coals will turn into the unquenchable fire of Gehenna!

Excerpt from: https://orthochristian.com/144691.html Open / Comment

2022-02-27 15:59:11 Trust in God Always

As regards trust in God, know that nothing is easier for God than to give you victory over your enemies, whether they be few or many, whether they be old and strong or new and weak. Yet He has His own time and order for everything.

Therefore if a soul be overburdened with sins, if it be guilty of all the crimes in the world, if it be defiled beyond imagination; if, at the same time, to the extent of its desire and strength, it uses every means and endeavour to become free of sin and turn to the path of good, but cannot get stable in anything right, however small, and, on the contrary, sinks ever deeper and deeper into evil; even if it is all that, it must not weaken in its trust of God or fall away from Him. It must not abandon its spiritual weapons and strivings but must fight and fight, struggling with itself and with its enemies with all its courage and untiring efforts.

For know and understand, that in this unseen war all are losers except a man who never ceases to struggle and keep his trust in God; for God never abandons those who fight in His armies, although at times He lets them suffer wounds.

So fight, everyone, and do not give ground; for the whole thing is in this unceasing struggle. God is always ready with remedies for those struck down by the enemies and with help for overcoming them, which He sends to His warriors in due time, if they seek Him and firmly hope in Him.

At some hour when they least expect it they will see their proud enemies vanish, as is written: "The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight" (Jer. li. 30).

Excerpt from Unseen Warfare, by Lorenzo Scupoli (edited by St Nicodemus the Hagiorite and St Theophan the Recluse). Open / Comment

2022-02-27 15:41:45 Failing in Our Weakness vs. Failing Due to Our Pride & Building Our Temple in Christ with Help from the Holy Angels

77. The demons that wage war on us through our shortcomings in virtue are those that teach unchastity, drunkenness, avarice and envy. Those that wage war on us through our excessive zeal for virtue teach conceit, self-esteem and pride; they secretly pervert what is commendable into what is reprehensible.

78. When the demons attack us invisibly in the guise of spiritual friendship, pretending that they want to accomplish the death of sin by means which in themselves are good, and when they say, ‘Let us build with you the temple of your Lord’, would that we might always reply, ‘You cannot share with us in the building of the house for the Lord our God; we alone will build for the Lord of Israel’ (1 Esd. 5:70-71).

‘We alone’ because, having been freed from the spirits that fight against us through our shortcomings in virtue, and having escaped from them, we do not now want to be pierced by those that excite our pride by encouraging us to excessive Zeal; because if that happened our fall would be far worse than if we had fallen on account of our shortcomings.

For had we fallen for this former reason, there would have been a good chance of recovering, since we would be forgiven because of our weakness. But recovery is impossible, or at least difficult, if we fall because we have made ourselves hateful through our pride, and in place of what is right have set up something else which we regard as better.

Yet in another sense we are not building the temple alone because we have the holy angels to help us to do what is good; indeed, we even have God Himself, who reveals Himself to us through our works of righteousness said builds us as a holy temple, fit for Himself and free from every passion.

/// St Maximos the Confessor
Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice | Third Century Open / Comment

2022-02-26 14:00:08 The temptation is constant.

Guard yourselves from extremes.

Find The Royal Path.

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2022-02-26 01:19:51 GD | Their Dead Souls Will Not Perceive God

/// St. Nilus the Myrrh-Streamer

*AVARICE - extreme greed for wealth or material gain driven by insatiable self love and bodily comfort

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2022-02-25 14:37:25 Open / Comment