https://fixupx.com/orthodoxluigi/status/1915658749727183305


пълен позор се оказа този Кнехтле. момента в който кажеш "всеки сам си интерпретира байбъла" си чао. дано не го видят лилавокосите студентки този клип, щото може да е края на кариерата му като циганопологет...

The Royal Doors remain open between Pascha and Pentecost. The opened Royal Doors symbolize the open tomb of the Saviour.

The last time I saw her she was a fervent Anglican (High Church), with a great deal of spiritual awareness and a great love for Our Lord. At the same time she has a kind of Dostoyevskian impulsiveness that occasionally leads her into strange adventures. While always dreaming of becoming a nun, she has had several unhappy marriages, for which the fault was not primarily hers (her husband simply left her with an unborn child); or if the fault was hers, then it was the fault of having an overly trusting nature that too easily follows early impressions of people. Right now she’s living on a farm with a man she married in despair, and the child from her previous marriage. She seems to be reasonably content, and I know she is capable of suffering a great deal in silence if need be; but, even though she has no intellectual doubts of Christian Truth, she finds her faith to be more or less dead. I’m going to be sending her books and icons as soon as I have some money (she welcomes them), but what she needs most is contact with real believers and fellow pilgrims on earth.
Forgive me for burdening you with all this, but if you feel it in your heart to do so, please write her something (I mentioned you to her, but said nothing about you), if only to let her know that Christians still exist. (She senses “something missing” in the Anglican and Catholic Churches, and she was impressed with the genuineness of the Russian Orthodox service the two times she was present at it.) You will both be rewarded, I am sure. Her address is Mrs. Charles Bradbury, Route 1, Ursa, Illinois. (Her name is Alison.) Please pray for her, and for me, wretched sinner but fellow pilgrim that I am. Jon promises to write soon. Let us hear some thing from you.
Your brother in Christ,

#Seraphim_Rose_letters

003.
Aug. 28/Sept. 10, 1963
Dear Nina [Seco],
It has been just about a year since your visit, and already we are almost strangers to each other. That is of course primarily my fault, since I am a hopelessly irresponsible correspondent. However, I will try to write once in a while, hoping that you will do likewise.
I am quite interested in your English-language Orthodox Church and would like to hear to more about it and about the priest. While I am quite satisfied with Church Slavonic myself, and in fact feel myself to be more Russian than American, I realize that one can’t expect many converts to go so far. In fact one of the chief difficulties I’ve had in my own modest missionary endeavors is the linguistic and cultural barrier. People are invariably fascinated by the Slavonic services, but any more intimate contact with the Church seems out of the question to them. What kind of success has your Church had? Do you have any organized missionary activity? I know Vladiko Ioann and Fr. Leonid (at St. Tikhons) want to begin something of the sort here (missionary activity, that is), and Gleb has some ideas of his own on the subject. But so far nothing has been begun.
I remember telling you last year that I would be going to Jordanville this Christmas.
However, since I found myself unable to work more than five months, I saved only enough money to live until now, and I’ve now gone back to work (as a busboy again, but in a pleasanter place). The book I have been writing is in much better form, though still far from finished. It turns out to be a study of the consequences of atheism as contrasted with the consequences of faith (historical-psychological-spiritual-philosophical-theological). I sometimes despair that I am making it too abstract and philosophical, so that no one will be interested in it or read it. Presently I’m working on an essay (which turns out, like the book, to be rather long) on the person and influence of Pope John XXIII in the light of Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor,” in which I hope to interest Fr. Konstantin.
Vladiko Ioann, as you must have heard, has been confirmed as Archbishop of San Francisco, and if the diocese is still a long way from real peace, at least there is some kind of order at last. I believe work on the new cathedral has finally begun again. Vladiko Ioann is my favorite among our bishops, even though I find it next to impossible to understand him. He is constandy filled with such a deep peace and joy that it is spiritually beneficial just to be in his presence. I was present at several crucial moments in the past months, when Vladiko was surrounded by excited, weeping, practically hysterical crowds (you know how Russians can be!), but he was exactly the same as ever, still calm and even joyful, denying all the angry accusations against other bishops, and exhorting all to spiritual peace and obedience.
Vladiko Savva was here for several months and did much in defense of Vladiko Ioann. He still has high hopes for establishing a monastery (though Gleb, as usual, is pessimistic about it), but apparently he will do nothing until he leaves Edmonton and is permanently established elsewhere. He was searching for potential monks while he was here, but so far Jon is the only definite one. For myself, I have yet to finish my book and see Jordanville before I make my choice. Do you happen to know any potential monks? And what of your own hopes, are they any nearer realization? There are few any more who think of the monastic life or take it seriously, even among Russians; Gleb’s mother, for example, gave me some very “practical” advice on why I shouldn’t be a monk.
Recently a girl whom I knew in college wrote me after having disappeared for several years. I had despaired of ever hearing from her again, and the circumstances lead me to believe that there is a spiritual meaning in this reestablishment of contact—in short, I think that Our Lord wishes to draw her to Holy Orthodoxy.

We don’t deconstruct Orthodoxy.
Because Orthodoxy is not a mood.
It’s not a trend.
It’s not your personal project.

Orthodoxy is fire.
It is unchangeable truth.
It’s the unbroken faith of the apostles, prophets, martyrs, and saints.

You don’t edit it.
You don’t modernize it.
You submit to it.

This faith doesn’t adapt to you.
It breaks you—gently, wholly—
so that Christ can rise in the ruins.

Saints didn’t “deconstruct.”
They fell on their faces and wept.
They took up their crosses in silence.
They bled for the Truth.

The Cross is not adjustable.
The Creed is not up for revision.
The Gospel doesn’t ask for your opinion.

You’re not called to reconstruct the Church.
You’re called to be reconstructed by it.

So if you’re tired of bending truth to suit your wounds—
Come. Bow your wounds to the Wounded One.

Orthodoxy doesn’t evolve.
It resurrects.

https://youtu.be/LJod0LRiJww?si=SJGRdtFFhw7blaPR

https://youtu.be/w-i0LmGFk0E?feature=shared

🇬🇧PERSECUTED UOC PARISH CELEBRATES EASTER IN BUKOVYNA

🇺🇦ГОНИМА ПАРАФІЯ УПЦ ЗУСТРІЧАЄ ПАСХУ НА БУКОВИНІ

◾️Easter night in the village of Panka, Bukovyna.
This is how the faithful of the St. Demetrius Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) celebrated the Bright Resurrection of Christ.

Hundreds of Orthodox Christians, whose church was seized by raiders from the OCU, glorify the Risen Christ.

Among the UOC believers who gathered for prayer that night, a true Easter joy could be felt.

Source of the info.

#persecution_UOC
#truth_about_Ukraine

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Many wanted to become gods,
but only one God became man.

I once saw a picture like this with the same message and all the same faces, only Stalin's face erased and replaced by Biden, who was not even close to Stalin in evil deeds and pride, but the Stalinists, today's servants of Putin, love their bloody idol so much that they hide his vanity so poorly...

Многи су хтели да постану бог,
али само један Бог је постао човек.

Једном сам угледао овакву слику са истом поруком и сва иста лица, једино Стаљиново лице обрисано и замењено Бајденом, који Стаљину није био ни до колена у злотворењу и гордости, али стаљинисти, данашње Путинове слуге, воле свог крвавог идола толико да његову сујету скривају тако бедно...

Today we commemorate Apostle and Evangelist Mark

Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/101204

More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/04/25

Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/april

#saints #feastsandsaints

How can the Paschal night be described? How can we express in words its greatness, glory, and beauty? Only by writing out the Paschal service from beginning to end could it be done. There are no other words fitting for this. How can the Paschal moment be committed to paper? What could be said in order to make it understandable and tangible? One can only unfold his arms in perplexity and point to the festively adorned church—“Come and delight…”

From: Thou Hast Proved Me, O God and Knowest.
The Life of Hieromonk Vasily

Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov)


🎥 Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius 

There is an illusion among many heterodox that “you better relax and don’t worry, God saved you", enjoy. Sounds like devils’ lies to Eve. This illusion is very dangerous, because people being relaxed don’t even notice how quickly sin occupies their heart.
“Sin closes the spiritual eyes; the thief thinks that God does not see; the fornicator, giving himself up to impurity, thinks that God does not see him; the covetous, the greedy, the drunkard, think that they can hide themselves and their sinful passions.”
St. John of Kronstadt

https://orthochristian.com/169270.html

Let's conclude today's selection with one of the most impressive churches dedicated to the feast - the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iaşi. Built for almost the entire XIX century, the church is dedicated not only to the Purification, but also to St George and Paraskeva of Serbia, and is one of the main monuments of classicism and neoclassicism in Romania.

Altar part of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh church in Tula, built in the Russian school of the Neo-Byzantine eclectics.

https://orthochristian.com/169258.html

Song of the Cossacks about how they crossed the snow -covered passports of the Caucasus when Tsar Nicholas II learned about the mass murder of the Armenians and sent them as support and liberation of besieged Armenian places.

English translation in the description.

https://youtu.be/posfvhkuekc

Lied der Kubankosaken darüber, wie sie die verschneiten Pässe des Kaukasus überquerten, als Zar Nikolaus II. von dem Massenmord an den Armeniern erfuhr und sie als Unterstützung und Befreiung belagerter armenischer Orte schickte.

Englische Übersetzung in der Beschreibung.

https://youtu.be/POsfVhKueKc

May God grant His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania many years on the occasion of his Name Day!
Eis polla eti despota!!
#synod

Be Watchful of the Many Heresies Taught In Christ's Name
https://youtu.be/Ecivx_eIzBk

https://orthochristian.com/169269.html

☦ loving this type of church wall newspapers

ქრისტე აღსდგა - სიონის ტაძარში ბერძენი მართლმადიდებლების მიერ შესრულებული საგალობელი.

St George church of Dighomi. Bright Wednesday 2025

In one church, a priest noticed that almost every Sunday at the Liturgy, a certain servant of God with two crutches stood and prayed. Once after the service, he approached her, asked her name, inquired about the circumstances of her life and, by the way, inquired whether it was difficult for her to be in the church of God every Sunday with such sore legs. In response, the woman uttered amazing words: "Yes, Father, it is difficult, but before my legs go to the church, my heart goes first."

St. Nicholas Parish in Lipras Manukan, the Philippines. Part of the Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam under the Moscow Patriarchate, it is one of the most remote Orthodox parishes on the island of Mindanao. This southern island is the major nexus of the Russian Orthodox mission to the Philippines, and the largest number of Orthodox churches in the country is located there. This one is located a long distance from the major concentration of former Aglipayan converts clustered around General Santos, and the faithful here are largely isolated from their brethren located elsewhere. Despite this this parish is also growing, receiving a permanent priest just a year ago and baptizing six converts this past February.

40th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Kaliningrad—more than 200 churches, 3 monasteries today
https://orthochristian.com/169257.html

The 40th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Kaliningrad was festively celebrated on Wednesday, April 23, with the Divine Liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of the Baltic and His Grace Bishop Nikolai of Chernyakhovsk.

"Духовни бољшевизам главни је ослонац политичког бољшевизма у његовом грандиозном плану за покоравање света. И док не обратимо потребну пажњу на борбу против тог духовног бољшевизма у нашим сопственим душама, на његово одлучно искорењивање и превладавање у нашем црквеном, друштвеном, породичном и личном животу, остаће бесплодне све наше наде на било какву бољу будућност за нас, за Русију и за читав свет. Ако заиста, не само на речима, стремимо тој бољој будућности и спасењу наше Отаџбине а са њом и читавог света од страшне претње бољшевизма која се над њим надвила, онда треба да схватимо  да пут ка томе циљу није у данашњој нездравој склоности ка сталном организовању демонстрација, у испразним великим речима и лакомисленом провођењу времена – него само у потпуном обновљењу нашег живота у духу истинске Христове вере, у духу истинске православне црквености, који нас сједињују са Богом и дају нам ту благодатну силу Божију, без које се не може уништити сатанско царство бољшевизма."
Архиеп. Аверкије Џорданвилски

In the Resurrection Chapel the notorious Dachau concentration camp at is a large icon depicting angels opening the camp’s gates, and Christ Himself leading the prisoners to freedom in the final days of WWII in 1945.

On April 29, a week before Pascha, “the electric power is turned off, the gates open and the American GIs make their entrance. As they stare wide-eyed at our lot, half-starved and suffering from typhus and dysentery, they appear more like fifteen-year-old boys than battle-weary soldiers...

Among the prisoners there were Orthodox priests, deacons and monks from Mount Athos. But there were no vestments, no books, no icons, no candles, no prosphoras, no wine. Efforts to acquire all these items from the Russian parish in Munich failed, as the Americans could not locate anyone from that parish in the devastated city… [1/2]

Toby: stop

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No death is more bitter than the death of an unholy sinner. His wickedness kindles fire and an unquenchable flame, despair and the loss of all hope. Deliver us from such a death and have mercy on us according to Your goodness!

#Ephraim_the_Syrian
#orthodox_Saints

About Confession

Confession is one of the Christian sacraments in which a believer confesses his sins to a priest (confessor) and receives forgiveness for sins committed after baptism, in order to renew his communion with God and reconcile with the liturgical community of which he is a member.

The sacraments of repentance and confession, in the Christian tradition, are considered indispensable principles in the life of a believer.

The sacrament of confession presupposes four elements:
1. repentance;
2. confession of sins;
3. prayer for forgiveness;
4. reconciliation with the community, which is manifested in Holy Communion.
Repentance has a permanent character and can be performed independently of Communion.

Confession is performed in a church or confessional, before a priest. The believer then confesses everything that torments his soul and that burdens his conscience, distances him from communion with God and divine service. Sins are confessed, even those committed in thoughts and desires. It is advisable to confess every sin against his neighbor, because every sin committed against people is also committed against God.

Based on the confession, the priest can give different spiritual remedies - penance, depending on the seriousness of the sins: extraordinary fasting, special prayers, compensation for someone we have harmed, works of mercy, or not approaching the Holy Sacrament of Communion for a certain period of time.

Modern confessors are forbidden to reveal the sins of those confessed.
[ source: Wikipedia, Confession ]

О исповести

Исповест је једна од хришћанских светих тајни у којој верник исповеда своје грехове свештенику (исповеднику) и прима опроштај грехова учињених после крштења, ради обнове своје заједнице са Богом и помирења са литургијском заједницом чији је он члан.

Свете тајне покајања и исповести, у хришћанској традицији сматрају се неизбежним начелима у животу једног верника.

Тајна исповести претпоставља четири елемента:
1. кајање;
2. исповедање грехова;
3. молитву за опроштај;
4. помирење са заједницом, које се манифестује светим причешћем.
Покајање има стални карактер и може се вршити независно од причешћа.

Исповест се врши у храму или исповедаоници, пред свештеником. Верник тада исповеда све оно што га мучи у души и што му оптерећује савест, удаљује га од заједнице с Богом и Богослужења. Исповедају се греси, чак и они учињени у мислима и жељама. Препоручљиво је, исповедити свако огрешење о ближње, јер сваки грех који је учињен људима, чини се исто тако и Богу.

На основу исповести свештеник може дати различити духовни лек - епитимију, према озбиљности грехова: ванредни пост, посебне молитве, накнаду некоме кога смо оштетили, дела милосрђа, или да се за извесно време не приступа Светој тајни причешћа.

Савременим исповедницима забрањено је откривати грехе исповеданих.
[ извор: википедија, Исповест ]

Најбољи који сам читао подсетник за исповест:
https://www.svetigeorgije.dk/podsetnik-za-ispovest/

[ Шта је то исповест? ]

[ подсетник за исповест према митарствима ]

Satanic rituals in the Vatican... They are no longer hidden but are openly presented to the masses as something that will very soon be adopted worldwide and become the new normal.

Do you notice the inverted crosses on the hands, red in color, in the first part of the video?

With these, Patriarch Porphyrios and his ecumenists want union! #aboutVatican

Сатанистички ритуали у Ватикану... Они се више не скривају већ се отворено представљају масама као нешто што ће врло брзо бити усвојено широм света и постати ново нормално.

Да ли примећујете обрнуте крстове на рукама, црвене боје, на првом делу снимка?

Са оваквима патријарх Порфирије и његови екуменисти хоће унију! #оВатикану

On the Millennium & the Heresy of Chiliasm: Revelation 19:19-20:3 - Lesson 21 (Series 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjg7SjcxnM&t=0

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In the Orthodox Christian services it is mentioned over and over that Christ’s Crucifixion, and all that He endured, was completely voluntary. There is never an emphasis on “blood and gore” but rather we recognize the reality — that being God He could have destroyed everyone with the breath of His mouth (see St. John 18:6), but instead, He endured the unthinkable in order to complete our rescue from the jaws of Hades and death.

What Adam and Eve (and often we) did not freely give to God — humble love, gratitude, and obedience — Christ now incarnates and offers in behalf of all of humanity. Not to “appease God’s wrath” because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit don’t differ in their approach to us, but rather to reinstate the relationship that we of our own free will turned away from in Paradise of old. Christ came to voluntarily break the contract with sin, the devil, and death as a human, as the new Adam, as only He, the God-man could, all while still honoring the gift of our free will.

In front of the Jew Vladimir Putin, Porfirije Perić called the student protests a colored revolution and a "temptation" that he hopes he (or we) will "win" https://youtube.com/shorts/OCjh069oQqY

Пред јеврејем Владимиром Путином, Порфирије Перић назвао студентске протесте обојеном револуцијом и "искушењем" које се нада да ће (или ћемо) "победити" https://youtube.com/shorts/OCjh069oQqY

The meaning of the word name of the Christian Lord God Jesus Christ

Jesus means salvation, and Christ means anointed, therefore Jesus Christ is the Savior (the Anointed One)! ☦

Значење речи имена Хришћанског Господа Бога Исуса Христа

Исус значи спас, а Христос значи помазаник, дакле Исус Христос је Спас(итељ) Помазаник! ☦

Is this a colored revolution, ecumenism and lies to Patriarch Porfirije Perić

A difficult time for young Serbs and all those of good will in Serbia, but this time of hypocrisy and scoundrels will also pass! I know deep down that this youth will be the pride of their ancestors, and those who support criminals and promiscuity will be a mockery and shame in the days to come! Christ is Risen, Serbia is Risen!☦

Јел ово обојена револуција екуменисто и лажи патријарху Порфирије Перићу

Тешко вријеме за младе Србе и све добронамјерне у Србији, него проћи ће и ово вријеме лицемјера и хуља! Знам дубоко у себи да ће ова младост бити на понос предака а они који подржавају криминалце и промискуитете на поругу и срамоту ће бити у дане оне! Христос Васкрсе, Србија Васкрсе!☦

Let us be careful, brothers, with what words we call what!

Just as we must not say that Kosovo is a state, because it is not, but is a part of Serbia, a false state, a terrorist creation on centuries-old Serbian territory that does not belong to anyone other than the people who have adorned Kosovo with dozens of monasteries and temples of God for centuries. Likewise, we must not call Porfirije Perić and his ecumenists the Serbian Orthodox Church! Likewise, Vučić is not Serbia!

Porfirije is not the Serbian Orthodox Church, on the contrary, Porfirije is not even an Orthodox, but a heretic - an ecumenist and a Sergianist. A heretic cannot represent the Orthodox Church, nor does he have the right to call himself the Serbian Orthodox Church! Therefore, it is wrong to call the ecumenists the Serbian Orthodox Church, and their opponents - the Orthodox against ecumenism - the enemies of the Church! By no means, we who fight against heresy are fighting for the purity of the Church, to remove heretics and all heretical teachings from it!

Let us choose our words wisely, brothers and sisters, so that ecumenical charlatans will not easily slander us with their cunning answers in front of the still naive faithful people!

Пазимо, браћо, којим речима шта ословљавамо!

Исто као што не смемо рећи да је Косово држава, јер није, већ је део Србије, лажна држава, терористичка творевина на вековној српској територији која не припада никоме другоме до народу који је вековима украшавао Космет десетинама манастира и храмова Божијих. Исто тако не смемо називати Порфирија Перића и његове екуменисте Српском Православном Црквом! Исто тако ни Вучић није Србија!

Порфирије није СПЦ, баш напротив, Порфирије није ни Православац, већ јеретик - екумениста и сергијаниста. Не може јеретик представљати Православну Цркву, нити он има тапију да себе назива СПЦ! Дакле, погрешно је екуменисте назвати СПЦ, и њихове противнике - Православце против екуменизма - непријатељима Цркве! Никако, ми што се боримо против јереси се боримо за чистоту Цркве, да се од ње одстране јеретици и сва јеретичка учења!

Мудро бирајмо речи, браћо и сестре, да нас не би екуменистички шарлатани без муке оклеветали својим лукавим одговорима пред још увек наивним верним народом!

Сегодня, после литургии. Только не полным составом😇

"Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless One."

Тишина брака – светиња пред Богом

Не износи из дома оно што је дато да се чува као тајна љубави.
Не говори о браку ни када си на врхунцу радости, ни када си у тами искушења.
Чувај, жено, као ризницу душу завета који си изговорила пред Богом – јер то није обичан завет, већ света тајна, печат вечности.

Свети Јован Златоусти учи нас: "Када се двоје венчају, они више нису двоје него једно тело. И све што један претрпи, и други осећа. Зато немој делити оно што је Бог сјединио."

А свети Серафим Саровски говори: "Где је тишина, тамо је мир. Где је мир, тамо Дух Свети обитава."

Жено, немој отварати врата брака својим пријатељицама, својој мајци, сестри, нити било ком човеку, ма колико ти био близак.
Када ти је тешко, узми бројаницу, не телефон.
Када ти срце вапи, реци Господу, не човеку.
Када падне ноћ, а ти у сузама, положи главу на јастук као на Христове груди и прошапћи: "Господе, Ти који си био на свадби у Кани, претвори поново воду у вино и ову горчину у љубав."

А ти, мужу, немој тражити савет од другова који не носе крст, него од Оца небеског.
Не износи слабост жене као трофеј, нити своју муку као терет пред туђим судом.
Свети Пајсије Светогорац говори: "Ако човек чува жену своју као светињу, Бог ће му дати и снаге и мудрости."
Будите свети једно другом, јер брачни завет је огледало Божје љубави.

Није срамота имати буре у браку – срамота је износити их пред свет, као да је љубав блато које се пере туђим сузама.
Љубав је крст који се носи у тишини.
Опраштање је подвиг који се не хвали.
И само оно што је скривено, Бог узвисује.

Брак није представа за свет. Брак је олтар на коме се приноси срце.
А када Господ гледа тај олтар, онда и благодат с небеса силази.
И зато, кад те питају: "Како си?"
ти се само благо осмехни и реци: "Хвала Богу – све је у Његовим рукама."

Ту је победа. Ту је сила. Ту је светиња.
Ту је Бог.
И ту остајте – заједно. У тишини, у љубави, у завету.

Христосъ воскресе! Воистину воскресе!

Благодатный огонь - это знамение Божие о Воскресении Христовом!

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☦ Saint Petersburg.

Orthodox christians decorated the entrance area of their appartment building in Easter spirit, but migrants from Tadjikistan didn't like it and removed the decor, including the icon.

https://youtu.be/0QrCrWbvgs0?si=ercR3c6gpMKR61MP

El drama no consiste en que seamos pecadores y que caigamos constantemente. El drama es que no creemos que Dios está presente aquí y ahora, que Él siempre “está a la puerta y llama” (Apocalipsis 3, 20), esperando paciente a que lo recibamos en la casa de nuestra alma. Feliz día. Síngelos Inocencio

Slaying serpents (or dragons) isn't just a man's work. One day after the commemoration of St George who famously put a serpent in its place, we honour St Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople (Apr 24/ May 7), who famously put a serpent in its place. St Elizabeth, who was Abbess of the Saints Cosmas and Damian Monastery, lived centuries after St George. St Elizabeth did it not slay the creature with the aid of a sword, but simply by her prayer.

St Elizabeth, who practiced an ascetic life from her youth, also healed a woman with an issue of blood who had been ill for many years and cast out unclean spirits. At her tomb, many were healed of various illnesses, and the blind received their sight.

Portions of St Elizabeth’s relics can be found at the Monastery of Saint Anna in Lygaria, Crete and the Monastery of Ntaou Penteli in Athens, Greece.

https://youtu.be/6qG2EVXKeBw?si=8noBYFL9Ro2oy4HB

Христос воскресе! 🥚
(Пасха продолжается)

ORTHODOX JAPAN

Last month, I had the privilege of attending liturgy in a Japanese Orthodox church for the first time ever! My church visit in the southern port city of Kagoshima in Kyushu, full of a rich local and international history, was completely unplanned.

When it comes to religion in general, my perception of the Japanese mentality could be summarized as covering all the bases. The latter is evident from their participation in both Buddhism and Shinto, as well as the way in which they participate. This makes the Japanese Orthodox truly stand out. This community in Japan is small, very small—some estimates I’ve seen total around 10,000 members—but very dedicated.

During my earlier trips to Japan, I only knew a little bit about that country’s Orthodox heritage. I’ve strolled past Japan’s main church, Nikorai-do in Tokyo, a few times, for example, but never walked in to observe their liturgy.

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The Moscow Cossack Choir: a bunch of really good-looking Slavs who know how to handle a sword! 🗡️

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☦ inst. Alexandra Tolstoy

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It seems the Russian government is completely fine with statues, names, sculptures & testaments to terrorist degenerates like Lenin, Stalin & Voikov - but are against former White Army heroes being depicted or honored.

Keep in mind, Lenin & the Bolsheviks actively worked with the German Imperial 2nd Reich government as well as the Talmudic Bankers during the First World War, which lead to insurmountably more suffering than any of Gen. Krasnov’s actions during WWII. Yet this history of Lenin does not seem to embarrass the Russian establishment. Curious double standards. Interesting hypocrisy.

A lot more can be said about Krasnov & his family (His son, Miguel Krasnov became one of the top men of Augusto Pinochet in Chile), his role in WWI as well as the Russian Civil War. We will write on it in the future.

The ordered destruction of this statue at Elansk Station, in the Rostov Oblast, is both an act of degeneracy, and betrayal.

The creator of the monument, Russian Cossack Vladimir Melihov, has been fined.

http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/eng/Orthodox_Catechism_of_Philaret.htm

‼️🚨🇷🇺 The local Russian government (🇮🇱?) of the Rostov Oblast has ordered the destruction of a monument to General Peter Krasnov.

Gen. Krasnov was an Orthodox White Army hero, a Cossack Ataman, an eternal enemy of Bolshevism. He never gave up hope of liberating Russia from the Talmudic Bolsheviks, and joined the Third Reich along with thousands of White Army Cossacks to fight in WWII.

Unfortunately, the Third Reich Germans misapplied his zeal, and kept him away from any leadership positions (as well as the frontlines), and did not use his expertise & knowledge in administering traditionally Russian & Slavic lands.

General Krasnov was later arrested by Stalin’s commissars & executed through hanging after a show mock-trial, similar to Nuremberg.