Me staring at my (soon-to-be blessed) icon of the protector of our fathers, guardian of the #OrthodoxFaith, and defender of the #HolyChurch - 😍 her most glorious Imperial Majesty, Empress St. #Theodora, daughter of the Syrians
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#OrientalOrthodox#SyriacOrthodox
Just as God humiliated Pharoah, so he now humiliates @OrthodoxEthos who in his ignorance has claimed that I "made up" that Eastern Orthodox believe saints become "unoriginate" by grace. Yet this is what Palamas taught
Yikes.
Who is Saint George al-Mozahem ?
George al-Mozahem is an Egyptian child born in the 10th century AD, to a Muslim father named Gomaa al-Atwi, who had forced a devout Coptic widow deeply attached to the Church to marry him ( Kidnapping and forced marriage was Muslims' way through the centuries). George was born, his eyes drawn to his mother’s footsteps as she secretly slipped into liturgies, to her features that carried both sorrow and hope, and to her eyes fixed on heaven.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means that one day, with great difficulty, he obtained a tiny piece of blessed bread (Eulogia) from his mother, and the moment he tasted it with longing and curiosity, by God’s grace it turned in his mouth into honey. His mind was lifted to heaven, his heart captured by Christ’s love, and he began dreaming of the day he would become Christian and be worthy to receive Holy Communion and enjoy the life of the Church.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means someone who loved Christ deeply and decided to become Christian no matter the cost. He kept searching everywhere for someone to baptize him while people feared the Arabs’ retaliation if they found out he had converted. George wandered from place to place, and when all seemed lost, he immersed himself in a baptismal font with all longing, attempting to baptize himself, until the opportunity finally came. He became Christian and was baptized. It happened to be the feast of Saint George, so they named him George. He married a righteous Coptic woman, and they lived in purity and chastity. He was eighteen years old.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means that every time he went somewhere trying to live in peace, someone would recognize him and expose his secret. He and his wife would flee from one place to another, carrying his life in his hands, because he was considered a criminal under the charge of apostasy, and the price of his Christianity would be humiliation and death without mercy.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means that in the end they arrested him. From prison to judge, from village elder to trial, from torture to temptation to threats,yet he stood firm like iron, like a lion, like Christ before the Sanhedrin, like Stephen under stoning, looking at hope with open eyes, unable to turn his gaze away from the supreme glory. The eyes of his soul and being were fixed on heaven while his body remained in the hands of the mob on earth, and the Lord awaited proudly to receive a new true hero like Saint George the Roman, Saint Mina, Mercurius, and Abaskhiron.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means that Archangel Michael appeared to him and said: “For a week I have been asking God concerning you because you sought my intercession,” and clothed him in a shining white garment and said: “This will help you endure suffering and remain steadfast in the time of torment.”
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means they continued day after day torturing and beating him until his breath seemed gone. Thinking him dead, they threw him into a filthy prison. The next day they found life still in him, so they tortured him again—and this continued for seven consecutive days.
What does Saint George al-Mozahem mean?
It means that, as usual, George,the radiant, gentle, pure, kind, peaceful young man,was left to the mob to torment him. More than a thousand non-Christians armed with every type of weapon: palm branches, sticks, stones, broken pottery, filth, and even knives and swords. Each wanted the reward of killing the apostate unbeliever. George looked on silently, his heart above where Christ sits at the right hand of the Father. He looked in silence, with a forgiving smile, with sorrow over hardened hearts, longing to meet the Bridegroom clothed in garments of martyrdom worthy of the supreme glory, entering the Holy Place carrying burdens of hardships and suffering to lay before the altar in
Context: The text from Evagrius is saying the Chalcedonian laity slaughtered the miaphysite monks.
Craig is misreading it saying the miaphysite monks slaughtered the Chalcedonian laity.