#Reflection #Salvation #Discerning
The 10 Commandments
8th Commandment
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
The 10 Commandments
8th Commandment
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
#Reflection #Family #Salvation
☦️🕯️Abstinence is for everyone, not just for monks. Husbands and wives for whom marriage means only the satisfaction of bodily passions will not be justified. They will answer before God for not having been abstinent. Of course, as the Apostle says, they are not to abstain from each other for a long time, lest the devil deceive them, but they should abstain according to mutual consent (cf. I Cor. 7:1-6). Married people should abstain from corporeal relations during fasts and on great Feast days.🕯️☦️
♰ Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica ♰
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☦️🕯️Abstinence is for everyone, not just for monks. Husbands and wives for whom marriage means only the satisfaction of bodily passions will not be justified. They will answer before God for not having been abstinent. Of course, as the Apostle says, they are not to abstain from each other for a long time, lest the devil deceive them, but they should abstain according to mutual consent (cf. I Cor. 7:1-6). Married people should abstain from corporeal relations during fasts and on great Feast days.🕯️☦️
♰ Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica ♰
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#Reflection #Salvation #Discerning
The 10 Commandments
9th Commandment
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
The 10 Commandments
9th Commandment
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
#Reflection #Salvation #Discerning
The 10 Commandments
10th Commandment
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
The 10 Commandments
10th Commandment
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
#Reflection #Knowing_Jesus
"I Know Him, for I Am Of Him, and He Sent Me" (Jn 7:29).
No one has ever dared say that they know God. Many have only said that "they believe in God." Only our Lord Jesus Christ Spoke the words: "I Know Him." And immediately He Explained from Whence He Knows Him, Saying: "for I Am Of Him, and He Sent Me." The first reason: "I Am Of Him" Testifies to the Eternal Being of the Son; and the second reason: "And He Sent Me," Testifies to the Manifestation of the Son in time in the physical world as an Emissary of the Holy Trinity.
For us, who are Christ-believing, it is not given to know the Father as His Only-begotten Son Knows Him, but to us it is Given, and Commanded, that we believe. Our Merit is in believing, and not in knowing. If all of us knew God by seeing, no one would have any Merit. For what kind of merit is there in seeing, and recognising? However, to not see yet believe, in this is Merit; in this is Virtue; in this is our Salvation. We are unworthy to see God, and by seeing to know, for we are weakened by sin, and alienated from God. But God's Mercy Gave us Faith in this life, which is able to bring us closer to God, and to lead us into the Everlasting Kingdom of seeing and knowing in that Life. O, my Brethren, let us believe on Christ the Lord, for He Knows. He Speak not by faith, but by Knowing.
O Merciful Lord, Confirm the Faith in us. Extend the Hem of Thy Robe, that we may hold on to it even to the end of our lives. Amen.
St Nicholai Velimirovich, from the Prologue of Ohrid (6th February)
"I Know Him, for I Am Of Him, and He Sent Me" (Jn 7:29).
No one has ever dared say that they know God. Many have only said that "they believe in God." Only our Lord Jesus Christ Spoke the words: "I Know Him." And immediately He Explained from Whence He Knows Him, Saying: "for I Am Of Him, and He Sent Me." The first reason: "I Am Of Him" Testifies to the Eternal Being of the Son; and the second reason: "And He Sent Me," Testifies to the Manifestation of the Son in time in the physical world as an Emissary of the Holy Trinity.
For us, who are Christ-believing, it is not given to know the Father as His Only-begotten Son Knows Him, but to us it is Given, and Commanded, that we believe. Our Merit is in believing, and not in knowing. If all of us knew God by seeing, no one would have any Merit. For what kind of merit is there in seeing, and recognising? However, to not see yet believe, in this is Merit; in this is Virtue; in this is our Salvation. We are unworthy to see God, and by seeing to know, for we are weakened by sin, and alienated from God. But God's Mercy Gave us Faith in this life, which is able to bring us closer to God, and to lead us into the Everlasting Kingdom of seeing and knowing in that Life. O, my Brethren, let us believe on Christ the Lord, for He Knows. He Speak not by faith, but by Knowing.
O Merciful Lord, Confirm the Faith in us. Extend the Hem of Thy Robe, that we may hold on to it even to the end of our lives. Amen.
St Nicholai Velimirovich, from the Prologue of Ohrid (6th February)
#Reflection #Knowing_Jesus #Worldly_Matters
Sister Maya Ziadeh, Lebanese nun that was fired from a school for telling children to pray for the Resistance in south Lebanon breaks her 11 month silence.
"I send my greetings to the Resistance fighters, for these are people who went to defend their homeland and have lost everything except their humanity, except God, except their dignity."
When brave women speak the words of Jesus Christ.
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Sister Maya Ziadeh, Lebanese nun that was fired from a school for telling children to pray for the Resistance in south Lebanon breaks her 11 month silence.
"I send my greetings to the Resistance fighters, for these are people who went to defend their homeland and have lost everything except their humanity, except God, except their dignity."
When brave women speak the words of Jesus Christ.
https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/4035
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Sister Maya Ziadeh, Lebanese nun that was fired from a school for telling children to pray for the Resistance in south Lebanon breaks her 11 month silence.
"I send my greetings to the Resistance fighters, for these are people who went to defend their homeland…
"I send my greetings to the Resistance fighters, for these are people who went to defend their homeland…
#Reflection #Knowing_Jesus #Fear_Not
Realize how much your Creator has honored you above all other creatures. He did not make the heavens in His image, nor the moon, the sun, the beauty of the stars or anything else which surpasses understanding. You alone are a reflection of eternal beauty, a receptacle of happiness, an image of the true light.
+St. Gregory of Nyssa
Realize how much your Creator has honored you above all other creatures. He did not make the heavens in His image, nor the moon, the sun, the beauty of the stars or anything else which surpasses understanding. You alone are a reflection of eternal beauty, a receptacle of happiness, an image of the true light.
+St. Gregory of Nyssa
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#Reflection #Knowing_Jesus #Salvation #Discerning #Persecuted_Church #Family
We understand his Theological difference,
Overlooking this,
This man is speaking truth.
A beautiful reflection well worth your time.
God bless
We understand his Theological difference,
Overlooking this,
This man is speaking truth.
A beautiful reflection well worth your time.
God bless
#Reflection #Salvation
“Much effort and labor is needed, for a man to be changed and to be the good tree that brings forth good fruit. Strive, then, for nothing else but to change, renew, and correct yourself. And pray for this...”
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Spiritual life in Orthodox understanding is not about getting some high emotions. Based on the Holy Scriptures, the Patristing interpretations and Holy Tradition, we know that Orthodox spirituality is expressed through prayer, worship, Sacraments, and grows through hardships….. for “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Mt,7,14)
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“Much effort and labor is needed, for a man to be changed and to be the good tree that brings forth good fruit. Strive, then, for nothing else but to change, renew, and correct yourself. And pray for this...”
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Spiritual life in Orthodox understanding is not about getting some high emotions. Based on the Holy Scriptures, the Patristing interpretations and Holy Tradition, we know that Orthodox spirituality is expressed through prayer, worship, Sacraments, and grows through hardships….. for “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Mt,7,14)
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#Reflection #Salvation
When we truly trust God and accept His will, our faith is growing. “Those who touched the Saviour’s garment were made whole. Why is it that those who employ holy water with faith are even now healed? Because the Cross, immersed in water, with the prayer of faith, is as though the life-giving Lord Himself.”
St. John of Kronstadt
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When we truly trust God and accept His will, our faith is growing. “Those who touched the Saviour’s garment were made whole. Why is it that those who employ holy water with faith are even now healed? Because the Cross, immersed in water, with the prayer of faith, is as though the life-giving Lord Himself.”
St. John of Kronstadt
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