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🇬🇷☦️ The stunning Easter 'rocket war' of Greece: Rival churches turn island of Chios into breathtaking centuries-old tradition of fire and light
Pelting thousands of fireworks at each other, with most direct hits to belfries 400 meters apart determining the winner
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BREAKING: Israeli Police Officer Places Foot on the Stone of Anointing Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
On Saturday, April 19, 2025, during the Holy Fire ceremony, a Jerusalemite Armenian reportedly witnessed a police officer placing his foot on the Stone of Anointing—the site where Jesus’ body was prepared for burial following the Crucifixion. When the Armenian pointed this out, the officer removed his foot. However, one of his colleagues then violently expelled the Armenian and his brother from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—on one of the holiest days in the Christian liturgical calendar.
Whether the act was intentional remains unclear, but the incident should prompt local authorities to show greater respect for the sanctity of Christian sites.
Via Kegham Balian
Jerusalemite Armenian
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On Saturday, April 19, 2025, during the Holy Fire ceremony, a Jerusalemite Armenian reportedly witnessed a police officer placing his foot on the Stone of Anointing—the site where Jesus’ body was prepared for burial following the Crucifixion. When the Armenian pointed this out, the officer removed his foot. However, one of his colleagues then violently expelled the Armenian and his brother from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—on one of the holiest days in the Christian liturgical calendar.
Whether the act was intentional remains unclear, but the incident should prompt local authorities to show greater respect for the sanctity of Christian sites.
Via Kegham Balian
Jerusalemite Armenian
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Forwarded from Orthodox Spirituality
Blessed is Christ, coming into my heart, into my soul, into my life. I am just as ready, O Lord, to come out to meet You, ready to spread out before You the garments of my virtues and the God-pleasing works I have done. When we act in that way, we are saying "Hosanna."
But let’s ask ourselves (and try to give an honest, unhypocritical answer) the question: "Does that exclamation often sound in my life? Does not "Crucify Him, Crucify Him" sound out more often in my soul? That is precisely what my soul cries out to God when I continue to stagnate in my sins; when I continue to be indifferent to the state of my soul, and do not care whether it is healthy or sick, or perhaps, already dead; when what is happening around me doesn’t matter to me, when I am concerned only with my own visible success; when I don’t see the person who is right beside me; when I am blind to his needs and I remain callous, selfish, not wanting to even think that someone might be in need of my human warmth, my kind words, my sympathetic glance.
In short, when I forget my Christian calling, I join the crowd of those Jews who in anger and hatred cried out to Pilate "Crucify Him, crucify Him."
-Archpriest Victor Potapov
But let’s ask ourselves (and try to give an honest, unhypocritical answer) the question: "Does that exclamation often sound in my life? Does not "Crucify Him, Crucify Him" sound out more often in my soul? That is precisely what my soul cries out to God when I continue to stagnate in my sins; when I continue to be indifferent to the state of my soul, and do not care whether it is healthy or sick, or perhaps, already dead; when what is happening around me doesn’t matter to me, when I am concerned only with my own visible success; when I don’t see the person who is right beside me; when I am blind to his needs and I remain callous, selfish, not wanting to even think that someone might be in need of my human warmth, my kind words, my sympathetic glance.
In short, when I forget my Christian calling, I join the crowd of those Jews who in anger and hatred cried out to Pilate "Crucify Him, crucify Him."
-Archpriest Victor Potapov
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Forwarded from He Loves Mankind ☦️
"After all, He saved the thief on the holy hill of Golgotha because of one hour’s faith, will He not save you too, since you have believed?
+ St Cyril of Jerusalem
+ St Cyril of Jerusalem
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Psalms 38:4-5
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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Psalms 38:6-8
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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Psalms 38:9-11
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 11. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 11. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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Psalms 38:12-13
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
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Psalms 38:14-16
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16. For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16. For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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Psalms 38:17-19
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 19. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 19. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
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Forwarded from He Loves Mankind ☦️
"The love of God is not taught by anyone, but is planted by God in the heart of man."
+ St John Chrysostom
+ St John Chrysostom
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