Thread of pictures I took at Saint John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco's Holy Church, Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco:
Saint John Maximovitch pray for us!🥹☦️🥺
What do we call when it’s ok to speak about men in generalities but it’s not ok to speak about women in generalities?
And what do we call that when it’s a male church leader doing this?
Seems like most churches today are unable to escape from feminism and their fear of women.
Online apologetics hit critical mass years ago and has since been reduced to polemics and reaction videos. The force of modernity perpetually consuming heterodoxy is now the undefeated apologetic for Orthodox Christianity.
If God sends someone sorrows, it is in order to cleanse him of sins and prepare him for the eternal Kingdom of Heaven, here everything is temporal, but there it is eternal. - St. Macarius of Optina
You will never flee from sorrows for they are a product of your own passions, for exposing them, so that, with God's help, we might take care to heal from them. - St. Macarius of Optina
The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.
When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.
The Lord sees everything we do. If we constantly think about Him and use simple words, He hears and helps. He doesn't need anything from us—just a heart. We must live with our hearts. None of the people know when the end of this world will be, but we all know that we will go to eternity. To inherit the kingdom of heaven, live in the light of conscience, according to the gospel, and you will be saved. Our thoughts and words have a great impact on the world around us: animals and vegetation. Pray with tears for all the sick, weak sinners, and those for whom there is no one to pray—and for flowers, stones, and plants. Don't offend the birds; give them alms. Ask God to keep the air and water clean on the planet, and unceasingly cry out to the Sweetest Savior of the world: 'Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov