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Christ is King👑

[Hălly @SanctusIustitia]

“When God sees that nothing in all the world can separate us from His love [cf. Rom. 8:35-39] there follows a period of trial, arduous indeed but without which we should remain ignorant of the depths of the created and uncreated forms of being. This is a cruel ordeal - an invisible sword cuts us off from the beloved God, from His never-setting Light. We are stricken on all levels. We simply cannot understand why it is that what seemed in prayer - prayer akin to the Gethsemane prayer - a definitive conjunction of love has given place to the hell of abandonment by God. The answer is to be found in the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, particularly verses 26 to
29. But firstly and lastly we have the 'example' [John 13:1s] of Christ Himself - on Golgotha, nailed to the cross, He cried out to the Father, 'Why hast thou forsaken me?, followed
immediately by It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost [Matt. 27:46; John 19:30].
And so the mystery of Divine Love is revealed to us - utter self-emptying precedes the fulness of perfection.
Love, the flame of which Christ cast into the soul of man, possesses an amazing attribute. It will lead him into depths and heights inaccessible to anyone else. It will enable him to master suffering of all kinds, even death itself. Time and again it will hurl him into indescribable infinity, where he will be 'alone', yearning to behold again the Light of the beloved God.
Such is the process for cleansing our nature infected by the poison of Lucifer. The way of Christ leads from a relative, constantly vacillating type of existence to an absolute, unshakeable Kingdom. It is natural that man's spirit should be restless when cut off from the perfect love of the Father - the result of the Fall. The image of God - man - seeks holy, immutable, absolute Good. And who can describe love for Him? Where find words powerful enough to express even a shadow of the grief felt by the soul separated from God?”

- St. Sophrony of Essex (Sakharov), ‘we shall see him as he is’, chp. 4, pg 52-53

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

"If you ever begin to think you are spiritually "well off" then you can know for sure that you aren't! True spiritual life, even on the most elementary level, is always accompanied by suffering & difficulties. Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties & sorrows." - Hieromonk Seraphim Rose

[Wolfgang @Zalmoxis7534]

“God’s judgement is not human judgement. Where human courts pick through every detail seeking grounds to condemn, God’s Judgement—if I may say so reverently—searches for any reason to pardon. And a single handkerchief wet with tears on the scales of divine justice outweighs all our sins, exactly as with the penitent thief.”

- Saint Athanasius Sakharov, Letters

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[Prekarios Styletes ☦️📿 @prekariosstylet]

The man who thinks with malice of his enemies has not God’s love within him, and does not know God. If you will pray for your enemies, peace will come to you; but when you can love your enemies — know that a great measure of the grace of God dwells in you, though I do not say perfect grace as yet, but sufficient for salvation. Whereas if you revile your enemies, it means there is an evil spirit living in you and bringing evil thoughts into your heart, for, in the words of the Lord, ‘Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts’ or good thoughts.

St Silouan the Athonite

[Basilica.ro (EN) @BasilicaNews]

A word of encouragement from St Paisios 💭

[Prekarios Styletes ☦️📿 @prekariosstylet]

I beseech you, put this to the test. When a man affronts you or brings dishonour on your head, or takes what is yours, or persecutes the Church, pray to the Lord, saying: ‘O Lord, we are all Your creatures. Have pity on Your servants, and turn their hearts to repentance,’ and you will be aware of grace in your soul. To begin with, constrain your heart to love enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, will help you in all things, and experience itself will show you the way.

St Silouan the Athonite

[Unseen.Warfare @Unseen_Warfare1]

“Live in peace not only with your friends, but also with your enemies; but only your personal enemies, and not the enemies of God.”

+ St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves †

[Hill @YariLogos]

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[☘︎ noetic jester ☦︎ @fool2theworld]

“The most Protestantism can do is produce a decent person. But this is not enough. By works no flesh will be saved. Grace, not enthusiasm, is needed.”

- Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev

[John ☦️ @DoulosChristou7]

Pray for us Fr. Seraphim Rose, your insight into the fanatics of this new age which you wrote about is here! Pray to our Lord Jesus Christ for us ☦️

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

The woman screamed in delirium, calling for Saint John of Shanghai.
The hospital doctors said, "He won't come. The hospital is closed for the night."
But through the thunder, through the rain, through the closed doors, Saint John entered. He was soaking wet. He gave her Holy Communion and told the woman,
"I am not a ghost, but the very reality." And within a few hours, she was completely healed.

Today is the feast day of St. John of Shanghai, one of the most incredible saints of the 20th century. And I want to tell you three true stories of how St. John helped, both during his life and after his death.

Story one.
China is under communist rule. Nearly six thousand Russian refugees find themselves on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. It's only three by four kilometers. There's abject poverty, tents, nothing else. And one more detail. The island lies directly in the path of seasonal typhoons. But for twenty-seven months, not a single disaster has occurred. One typhoon came close and passed it by.
The Russians themselves were surprised and asked the locals, "How can this be? Such things even happen?"

They shrugged and replied calmly, "You have a holy man. He walks around the camp every night, blessing it, praying. And thanks to him, nothing happens.
Bishop John prayed very fervently. And when the camp was evacuated, a typhoon came and destroyed everything."

Story two. France, 1945. Anna Petrovna Lushnikova, the singing teacher who taught the bishop his diction, was gravely ill in the hospital. That night, she became delirious. She screamed and called for him.

The doctors explained: "It's impossible. We can't bring him here. The hospital is closed, it's wartime, there's a storm outside, rain, and a squall. It's impossible to come here."

But amidst the peals of thunder, a drenched bishop enters the room and tells her: "I am not a ghost. I am the very reality."
And he gave her communion.

She fell asleep and woke up in the morning completely healthy.

It wasn't delusional. A roommate confirmed: she'd seen the saint with her own eyes. And under his pillow, they found a twenty-dollar bill—that's how much he always paid for his lessons. How it got there, no one could explain.

Story three.
Shanghai. An orphanage that the bishop founded and fed himself. He literally scavenged abandoned children from the streets. One day, the food ran out completely, and the caregivers came to him in tears. There was nothing to feed the children. Saint John began to pray. No one believed that help would come. But suddenly, a stranger knocked on the door and brought food.

Just like that.

Here he was sent by the Lord.

This is who Saint John is.

He walked barefoot, with patches on his cassock. He hardly slept, only occasionally dozing off right on the floor in front of the icons. But when he prayed, God heard him. And He still does. Pray to Saint John.

He's a quick assistant. And these aren't just words. This is something people have experienced for themselves.

Saint Father John, pray to God for us.

ROMAN GOLOVANOV