#Salvation #Jesus_Words
Matthew 5:29-30
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 5:29-30
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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“I do not worship matter; I worship the God of matter, Who became matter for my sake; Who deigned to inhabit matter; Who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.”🕯️☦️
♰ St. John of Damascus (On the Veneration of Icons) ♰
“I do not worship matter; I worship the God of matter, Who became matter for my sake; Who deigned to inhabit matter; Who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.”🕯️☦️
♰ St. John of Damascus (On the Veneration of Icons) ♰
#Reflection #Salvation #Jesus_Words #Knowing_Jesus
The world will hate you, said the Lord (John 15:18).
Who is this “you”?
Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and tries to live by His holy commandments.
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev explains what it means and reminds us to take seriously the warning of Christ, remembering that this life is temporary.
“This is the law, revealed by God, which millions of Christians have experienced for themselves. One can sum it up in this way: he who has within himself the Spirit of Christ will be despised and persecuted by those who lack this Spirit, I realize that you already know and understand this, but it doesn’t harm to refresh this in your memory, especially since we have become accustomed to relate very superficially to the words of Holy Scripture.”
The world will hate you, said the Lord (John 15:18).
Who is this “you”?
Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and tries to live by His holy commandments.
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev explains what it means and reminds us to take seriously the warning of Christ, remembering that this life is temporary.
“This is the law, revealed by God, which millions of Christians have experienced for themselves. One can sum it up in this way: he who has within himself the Spirit of Christ will be despised and persecuted by those who lack this Spirit, I realize that you already know and understand this, but it doesn’t harm to refresh this in your memory, especially since we have become accustomed to relate very superficially to the words of Holy Scripture.”
#Jesus_Words #Family
Matthew 5:31-32
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 32. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 5:31-32
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 32. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
#Satans_Synagogue #Knowing_Jesus #History #Reflection #God_Jesus
No one has ever spread as much shameful slander about Christ the Lord as the Jews. Their Talmud seethes with evil and malice toward the Lord. But all of those worthless calumnies are refuted by the most prominent historian of the Jews, Josephus Flavius, a rabbi and scholar who lived near the end of the first century after Christ. Josephus writes: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to Himself both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the denunciation of the most eminent men among us, had Him condemned to the cross, those that loved Him from the first did not forsake Him. He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold, and they foretold many other things concerning Him. And the sect of Christians, so named after Him, remains to the present day." Thus wrote a man who did not believe in Christ but was a scholar free of prejudice and malice.
The Prologues from Ohrid
Source: https://t.me/OrthodoxSpirituality555/2045
No one has ever spread as much shameful slander about Christ the Lord as the Jews. Their Talmud seethes with evil and malice toward the Lord. But all of those worthless calumnies are refuted by the most prominent historian of the Jews, Josephus Flavius, a rabbi and scholar who lived near the end of the first century after Christ. Josephus writes: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to Himself both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the denunciation of the most eminent men among us, had Him condemned to the cross, those that loved Him from the first did not forsake Him. He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold, and they foretold many other things concerning Him. And the sect of Christians, so named after Him, remains to the present day." Thus wrote a man who did not believe in Christ but was a scholar free of prejudice and malice.
The Prologues from Ohrid
Source: https://t.me/OrthodoxSpirituality555/2045
#Jesus_Words #Salvation
Matthew 5:33-34
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34. But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
Matthew 5:33-34
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34. But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (Orthodox Christian)
☦️🙏 Ireland has strong Orthodox roots. In the photo it's the Chapel of St. Patrick on the other shore of the Irish Sea.
#Jesus_Words #Salvation
Matthew 5:35-36
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Matthew 5:35-36
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
#Original_Faith
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe..
Literally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqMwuMAWFRA
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe..
Literally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqMwuMAWFRA
YouTube
Blind Orthodox Christian monk chanting
Chanting in Church-Slavonic by the Blind Orthodox Christian Monk fr. Jeremiah, from Visoki Dečani Monastery in Serbia, Kosovo province.
Filmed by Životije Utešanović.
Filmed by Životije Utešanović.
Forwarded from OrthoChristian
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church of East Meadow’s 100th anniversary
https://orthochristian.com/161586.html
On Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church of East Meadow, the first Orthodox parish in the Nassau-Suffolk area of New York, celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the parish’s founding.
https://orthochristian.com/161586.html
On Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church of East Meadow, the first Orthodox parish in the Nassau-Suffolk area of New York, celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the parish’s founding.
#Jesus_Words #Salvation
Matthew 5:37
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Matthew 5:37
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
#Reflection #Original_Faith #Knowing_Jesus
O man, trust in the Lord with all your heart. In Him is understanding without end and all-seeing. The Lord says: I am understanding; mine is strength (Proverbs 8:14). He looks upon the paths on which your blood flows and on all the crossroads on which your thoughts wander. With compassion and love He offers Himself to you as a Leader, and you rely on your darkened and perishable understanding. Where was your understanding before your birth? Where was your understanding when your body was taking form, when your heart began to beat and flow with blood, when your eyes began to open, and when your voice began to flow from your throat? Whose understanding was all this while your mind was still sleeping as coal in a coal mine? Even from the time your understanding awoke, can you enumerate all the illusions that it has delivered to you, all the lies in which it has entangled you, all the dangers that it did not foresee? O my brother, trust only in the Lord with all your heart! He has rescued you numerous times from your own understanding, from its illusions and lies, and from the danger into which it has pushed you. Like a blind man compared to a man who can see, so is your understanding compared to the understanding of God. O blind one, trust in the Leader. O brother, trust only in the Lord with all your heart.
+ Saint Nikolai Velimirovic
O man, trust in the Lord with all your heart. In Him is understanding without end and all-seeing. The Lord says: I am understanding; mine is strength (Proverbs 8:14). He looks upon the paths on which your blood flows and on all the crossroads on which your thoughts wander. With compassion and love He offers Himself to you as a Leader, and you rely on your darkened and perishable understanding. Where was your understanding before your birth? Where was your understanding when your body was taking form, when your heart began to beat and flow with blood, when your eyes began to open, and when your voice began to flow from your throat? Whose understanding was all this while your mind was still sleeping as coal in a coal mine? Even from the time your understanding awoke, can you enumerate all the illusions that it has delivered to you, all the lies in which it has entangled you, all the dangers that it did not foresee? O my brother, trust only in the Lord with all your heart! He has rescued you numerous times from your own understanding, from its illusions and lies, and from the danger into which it has pushed you. Like a blind man compared to a man who can see, so is your understanding compared to the understanding of God. O blind one, trust in the Leader. O brother, trust only in the Lord with all your heart.
+ Saint Nikolai Velimirovic
#Reflection #Original_Faith
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance. Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance. Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom