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Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
☦️Saint John of the Ladder
Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your Cross ☦️
Σώσον, Κύριε, τον λαόν Σου και ευλόγησον την κληρονομίαν Σου, νίκας τοις βασιλεύσι κατά βαρβάρων δωρούμενος και το σον φυλάττων, δια του Σταυρού Σου, πολίτευμα ☦️
Before Thy Cross we bow down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection we glorify ☦️
“The demonic hosts tremble when they see the Cross, for by the Cross the kingdom of hell was destroyed. They do not dare to draw near to anyone who is guarded by the Cross.”
☦️Saint John Maximovich
Abortion is Lucifer’s demonic parody of our Holy Eucharist…..which is why the Satanists usurped and twisted the same words “this is my body” but with the opposite satanic meaning. Abortion is the sacrament of Satanism masquerading around as the religion of secular progressivism.
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The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret, and God enlightens him. Jesus, by His silence, shamed Pilate; and a man, by his silence, conquers vainglory.
☦️Saint John of the Ladder
“Isolate the 50 richest Jews and all wars will cease.”
-Henry Ford
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”
-Gutle Schnapper Rothschild
"Wars are the Jews' Harvest: The Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million
Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet."
-Rabbi Reichorn, 1859, Chief Rabbi of France
Five Rubles
One day a woman of about fifty years old came to me for confession. When she was a twelve-year-old girl, her father had left their family, and throughout her life she hated him for this and did not communicate with him.
He tried to establish a connection with his daughter, but she did not want to make contact. She cursed him, and she did not want to see him.
About forty years had passed, and her father had died. And so she came and began to explain:
“Of course, I understand that this is bad, but I am still offended by him.”
I answered her in the standard way:
“Try to pray and repent. After all, vindictiveness is not good.”
Having told me about her father, she began to remember her childhood, and in the same confession casually mentioned that at the age of twelve she had stolen five rubles from her mother. So I asked her:
"Did you ask her for forgiveness for this?"
“No, I didn’t ask.”
"You have to ask!" - I insisted.
She objected:
“Mom lives in a little village, she’s over eighty years old, and she probably doesn’t remember anything anymore.”
But I still pushed:
"No, you need to go and ask for forgiveness."
Then I read a prayer over her, and we parted.
A few weeks later I saw the woman again. She came to me in a terrible state: she was all crying, she was literally shaking. She cried for a long time, but finally calmed down and said that she had come to her mother in the village and had brought up the issue:
“You know, Mom, when I was twelve years old, I took five rubles from your wallet and didn’t say anything, and recently I went to a priest for confession, and he told me to ask you for forgiveness.”
Mom began to cry and said:
“At one time, your father used to drink heavily - so much that he began to steal money. When you were nine, I couldn’t stand it and decided to kick him out. He asked for forgiveness, knelt down, and I gave him one last chance."
"After that, he quit drinking and he got a job. But when you were twelve years old, we were short five rubles. I asked you — you answered that you didn’t take it. Then I blamed my husband for everything, and we quarreled. After that he left and never came back."
When the woman found out everything, all her hatred for her father disappeared, and a whole freight train of guilt rolled up in its place. This is how the Lord opens our eyes.
☦️Priest Pavel Ostrovsky
In the future Judgment, the condition of each person will be revealed in an instant, and each person on his own will proceed to where he belongs. Each person will recognize, as if on a television screen, his own wretchedness, as well as the spiritual condition of others. He will reflect himself upon the other, and he will bow his head, and proceed to the place where he belongs. For example, a daughter-in-law who sat comfortably with her legs crossed in front of her mother-in-law, who with a broken leg took care of the grandchild, will not be able to say, “My Christ, why are you putting my mother-in-law into Paradise without including me?” because that scene will come before her to condemn her. She will remember her mother-in-law who stood with her broken leg in order to take care of her grandchild and she will be too ashamed to go into Paradise — but there will be not place for her there, anyway.
☦️Saint Paisios
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This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend and our brother. He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet, He is still a friend and He shouts it out, "You're My friends, don't you understand that? We're brothers — I don't hold hell in My hands. I am not threatening you. I love you. I want you to enjoy life together with Me.
☦️Saint Porphyrios
To see the angels is not a great miracle, but to see your own mistakes is a miracle.
☦️Saint Anthony the Great
Never lose hope, for God is working even when you may not see or feel Him there.
☦️Saint Nektarios
No one ever became holy by fighting evil. We only become holy by falling in love with Christ.
☦️Saint Porphyrios
AXIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No lies detected…..
Btw, for those that don’t know the origins of the name Hollywood, it comes from the holly wood: The wood that the Druids used to make their magic wands. Not coincidental.
“You gotta leave those Hollywood parties thirty minutes before the devil arrives.”
-Denzel Washington
From the GOARCH “2025 Topics, Tips & Resources” for the Oratorical Festival of the DRE (Dept. of Religious Education).
"Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the antichrist."
☦️Saint Gregory the Great
"The Jews are wise only in doing evil, and are thus unable to know the hidden plan of God.”
☦️Saint Justin the Martyr
“Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer, and we are his chosen people.”
-Harold Wallace Rosenthal, a Jewish aide to a U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits
“Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.”
-Papist “saint” Catherine of Siena
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At this time, we're entering the great spiritual arena of the blessed Great Lent. Holy and Great Lent is a time of compunction, for repentance, for tears, for a change in ourselves, for a new stage in the spiritual life. Like an affectionate mother caring for her children, us Christians, the Church has designated this time of Lent as dedicated to the struggle, in order to help its children fight harder, to purify themselves, draw closer to God and to be counted worthy of celebrating the great day of the radiant Resurrection.
☦️Geronta Ephraim of Arizona
Examine your heart, do you easily forgive those who gave you bitterness, those who wronged you, and also your enemies? If you easily forgive, and quickly, then you are on the road of the Saints.
☦️Saint Eumenios
When a priest takes out the particles from the prosphora for the repose of the departed and after he receives Holy Communion, he says, "O Lord, by Thy most pure Blood forgive the sins of all those commemorated today! As you see, this is the most perfect prayer and the greatest sacrifice that we can offer up for our loved ones who have departed to God.
☦️Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“With us everything should be secondary compared to our concern with children, and their upbringing in the instruction and teaching of the Lord.”
☦️Saint John Chrysostomos
“When your children are still small, you have to help them understand what is good. That is the deepest meaning of life.”
☦️Saint Paisios
“The least departure from Tradition can lead to a scorning of every dogma of our Faith.”
☦️Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
Today the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Photios the Great! For those that don’t know, St. Photios was the Patriarch that sent his two nephews, Saints Cyril and Methodios, from Thessaloniki in the year 863 to preach the Gospel in Moravia. They developed an alphabet for the Slavonic people and as a result of their efforts, the Slavic nations embraced Orthodox Christianity. As a Father of the Church, Saint Photios’ achievements as Patriarch have earned him a reputation as the greatest of all Patriarchs. May we always have his prayers and intercessions!
Orthodoxy is not a library which you can study, but an experience which you are called to live.
☦️Saint Justin (Popovic)
“The Greeks [referring to the Orthodox] are not heretics or schismatics but the most Christian people and the best followers of the Gospel on earth.”
-Martin Luther, 1519
“Blessed art thou among women!” (Luke 1:28, 42-43). “Henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” (Luke 1:48)
“If God the Father chose her, God the Holy Spirit descended upon her, and God the Son dwelt in her, submitted to her in the days of His youth, was concerned for her when hanging on the Cross — then shouldn't everyone who confesses the Holy Trinity venerate her?”
☦️Saint John Maximovitch
There is nothing higher than what is called repentance and confession. The sacrament is the offering of God's love to mankind. In this perfect way a person is free of evil. We go and confess and we sense our reconciliation with God — Joy enters us and guilt departs. In the Orthodox Church there is no impasse.
☦️Saint Porphyrios
If they mock you, don’t answer back. If they curse you, keep silent and pray. If you are treated unjustly, pay no attention, and just let it be. If they criticize you, don’t justify yourself. If they mistreat you, don’t fight back. If they treat you with sarcasm, bear the pain.
☦️Elder Ephraim of Arizona
For those that aren’t aware, organ donation is firmly against our religion. Multiple doctors we know, in several different states, have verified that the person must still be alive when the organs are harvested. Only corneas can be harvested shortly after the actual death of a person. Even if the person is “brain dead,” as long as his organs are still alive, we have to assume that the soul must still be with the body.
“There is no consensus on diagnostic criteria for brain death. They are the subject of intense international debate. Various sets of neurological criteria for the diagnosis of brain death are used. A person could be diagnosed as brain dead if one set is used and not be diagnosed as brain dead if another is used.”
-- Dr John Shea, MD, Toronto, Ontario
Christ is Born! Glorify Him! ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΤΑΙ! ΔΟΞΑΣΑΤΕ! Happy & Blessed New Year full of Christ’s Light to all!
“Happy Yew Year, my [Heavenly] Father, may You always be with me as light to enlighten me to walk on the straight path.”
☦️Elder Ephraim of Arizona