The Church is a ship sailing to the harbor of salvation.

☦️St. Sophrony of Essex☦️

Once a child was abandoned somewhere in the Russian province (rarely but that happens) and the stray cat Masha saved him! She got into the box where the baby was laying in the frost, warming him and meowing to draw attention of passers-by. She succeeded and has become famous.

Animals often amaze us. Sometimes they put us, who have intellect and the commandments, to shame.

☦️🕯️God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light."🕯️☦️

♰ St. John of Kronstadt ♰

☦️🕯️So, morning or evening, immediately before you begin to repeat your prayers, stand awhile, sit for awhile, or walk a little and try to steady your mind and turn it away from all worldly activities and objects. After this, think who He is to whom you turn in prayer, then recollect who you are; who it is who is about to start this invocation to Him in prayer. Do this in such a way as to waken in your heart a feeling of humility and reverent awe that you are standing in the presence of God.☦️

♰ St. Theophan the Recluse ♰

Do not be surprised when you try to live in a right way spiritually and start to feel demonic attacks even more (it can be anything, for example, fights in family or sleepness, or anger, etc) . Just beware no to fall into temptation.
“A good deed, such as heartfelt prayer, or especially Holy Communion, will not pass without the devil taking revenge. He uses all his might to prevent fruitful prayer and/or communion. If unable to achieve this, he then tries to spoil everything after the fact, so that not a trace of the benefit acquired remains.”
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev

☦️🕯️The demons attack the person who has attained the summits of prayer in order to prevent his conceptual images of sensible things from being free from passion; they attack the gnostic so that he will dally with impassioned thoughts; and they attack the person who has not advanced beyond the practice of the virtues so as to persuade him to sin through his actions. They contend with all men by every possible means in order to separate them from God.🕯️☦️

♰ St. Maximos the Confessor ♰

1) Roman Catholicism insulted the Holy Spirit, denigrating Him with 'filioque', and the Holy Spirit left that denomination. RCC has no grace, and all honest RC and ex-RC admit the fact that they don't feel presence of the Holy Spirit in their temples.
2) RCC is in a conflict with the Scripture with its papism, distorted idea about proceeding of the Holy Spirit, immaculate conception and other heresies.
3) Roman Catholicism has deteriorated to the point of being indistinguishable from its child, Protestantism, they lost the major part of the Holy Tradition. 13th century Catholic would burn modern "Catholics" as heretics if he met them.

Inquirers ask about that from time to time.

Veterans of the Crimean War* near the Fraternal cemetery. Sevastopol , 1911 Crimea, Russian Empire


*Crimean War, (October 1853–February 1856), war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places in Palestine.