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2022-02-07 09:10:59 @DRIIIVERSVFM Open / Comment

2022-02-07 09:03:00 The Wrath of God & Gifts of Grace

The wrath of God is the painful sensation we experience when we are being trained by Him. Through this painful experience of unsought sufferings God often abases and humbles an intellect conceited about its knowledge and virtue; for such sufferings make it conscious of itself and its own weakness. When the intellect perceives its own weakness it rejects the vain pretensions of the heart.

The wrath of God is the suspension of gifts of grace – a most salutary experience for every self-inflated intellect that boasts of the blessings bestowed by God as if they were its own achievements.

/// St Maximos the Confessor
#9 & #10 | Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice [Third Century] Open / Comment

2022-02-07 08:56:27 “Whenever we seen in us malice, envy,
criticism,grumbling, and whatever else is of the devil, we should realize that we do not have a pure heart. If we had a pure heart, we would not be offended even if people insulted and derided us. That fact that we are offended, bothered, embittered,shows that our heart is not pure.”

+Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona+ Open / Comment

2022-02-07 08:55:03 @DRIIIVERSVFM Open / Comment

2022-02-07 08:50:37 Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.

St. Silouan the Athonite, Writings, XV.2 Open / Comment

2022-02-07 08:50:06 An amazingly profound hymn from the service to the New Martyrs of Rus'. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 00:10:16 @COVID19agenda Open / Comment

2022-02-06 22:31:02 NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS OF RUSSIA

“Today we celebrate the memory of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian land. These are all the multitude of bishops, priests, monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen, and children who were killed or suffered gravely because of their faith and their refusal to compromise their faith, to cooperate with the new revolutionary government, or to renounce their faith in Christ.”

A collection of sermons about and lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors who earned their crown in the face of atheist communism : https://orthochristian.com/77086.html

You either live as a Confessor for Christ or die as a Martyr for Christ.

There are only two options for us Christians in the world.

May God have mercy on us and save us. Amen. Open / Comment

2022-02-06 14:39:28 Once Fr. Herman asked Fr. Seraphim if there was anywhere in the world he wanted to go

"No." Replied Fr. Seraphim.

"Why not? Don't you even want to go to Mount Athos?"

"We should strive, according to Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov's advice, to have Mount Athos in our hearts." Open / Comment

2022-02-06 01:03:58 Those who suffer deeply for the salvation of the whole world and help in their own way (as strugglers) and humbly entrust themselves to the hands of God, feel the greatest joy in the world. Their life is a constant doxology, for they flutter about internally like angels, glorifying God day and night. Those, however, who neglect the salvation of their souls and try to find joy and rest in this vain life, are continually tortured and entangled in endless worldly machinery and live in hell in this life

+ St. Paisios of Mt. Athos Open / Comment