Alexandra ☦️

Orthodox Christian ☦️, nuclear family enthusiast, bookworm, amateur chef, beauty appreciator

[✨🎻Harmonic melody🎻✨ @diep84930]

Sleeping Beauty 😍 @fumikaneko_ @fbonelliuk ♡♡♡

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

The line about INDEPENDENT WOMEN from the Sense and Sensibility poster is especially funny considering Jane Austen was one of the most patriarchal of the great novelists.

Consider the following words in Pride and Prejudice from Mr Bennet to his favorite daughter after a man asked for her hand in marriage. This is completely unironic and is offered as the ideal:

"I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband, unless you looked up to him as a superior."

Not exactly proto-feminist stuff.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

“I know that I shall die for Christ, but I do not fear death. Better to die than to live under the rule of the Ottomans.”

— Vlad III

[Rhéa Maria ☦️📿⚜️ @RheaMaria_]

There was a time when Russia and France were allies, a time when we welcomed the Tsar in our capital with more honours than for any other sovereign.

In 1896, the Tsar visited France for a week during which the French society's enthusiasm exceeded all expectations.

Thread🧵:

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien published a Christmas poem titled “Noel” in the annual magazine of Our Lady's Abingdon, in Oxfordshire. The poem was lost to history for nearly 80 years until scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull rediscovered it in the archives. It reads:

Grim was the world and grey last night:
The moon and stars were fled,
The hall was dark without song or light,
The fires were fallen dead.
The wind in the trees was like to the sea,
And over the mountains' teeth
It whistled bitter-cold and free,
As a sword leapt from its sheath.

The lord of snows upreared his head;
His mantle long and pale
Upon the bitter blast was spread
And hung o'er hill and dale.
The world was blind, the boughs were bent,
All ways and paths were wild:
Then the veil of cloud apart was rent,
And here was born a Child.

The ancient dome of heaven sheer
Was pricked with distant light;
A star came shining white and clear
Alone above the night.
In the dale of dark in that hour of birth
One voice on a sudden sang:
Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth
Together at midnight rang.

Mary sang in this world below:
They heard her song arise
O'er mist and over mountain snow
To the walls of Paradise,
And the tongue of many bells was stirred
in Heaven's towers to ring
When the voice of mortal maid was heard,
That was mother of Heaven's King.

Glad is the world and fair this night
With stars about its head,
And the hall is filled with laughter and light,
And fires are burning red.
The bells of Paradise now ring
With bells of Christendom,
And Gloria, Gloria we will sing
That God on earth is come.

[Conrad (WWIII⚡️Analyst) @GnomeRad]

107 years ago the God ordained Imperial order was overthrown by the same revolutionary forces that murdered Christ 🇷🇺👑☦️

🗡️ The Russian Royal Family were brutally murdered in a ritual way by jewish bolsheviks, ending 1500 years of Christian Empire from St. Constantine to Tsar Nicholas II. Thankfully Orthodoxy has returned to Russia & is growing worldwide. In no small part thanks to the prayers of these new Martyrs. Pray for us Holy Saints! 🙏🏻

[Echo 🔆 @TheEcho13]

Things that are literally none of my business:

1. The air pressure in my tires. I didn’t put it there, I didn’t ask for it to be there. Not my problem.

2. Terms and conditions. I’ll click accept on anything, what happens after that has nothing to do with me.

3, How much I spend on skincare. I’m stopping time, units don’t exist.

4. What the emoji’s on the car dash mean. A new one appears? Welcome to the family.

5. What Apple charges me $12.99 for every month. No idea what it is, not my business, I just consider it a girl tax.

6. The price of gas. I can’t change it and I’m gonna get it either way so it’s 100% none of my business.

[Angelina Serbska ☦️ @Angelina_Lina8]

"Talk with your Guardian Angel all the time about everything. Especially when you are in trouble and when you cannot get along with other people. He always helps."

Saint Gavrilia Papayannis

[Alexandra ☦️ @TheFancyFasho]

“When we suffer from the idiosyncrasies from others, we are paying off the debt from our own sins. God in His goodness has arranged things perfectly, so that with our gifts, we can help each other, and with our faults, we can be humbled by each other.”

-St Paisios

[Buck Johnson @buckrebel]

Wise words. ☦️

[Alexandra ☦️ @TheFancyFasho]

Let’s not overlook the pants 😍

[Link Lauren @itslinklauren]

The threat of nuclear world war is very serious… but we must also talk about First Lady Melania in these Dolce & Gabbana pants and pink pumps tonight.

[Alexandra ☦️ @TheFancyFasho]

The world: “it’s your day honey do what you want”

Orthodox: “wear these crowns before God to symbolize the eternal union you’ll have with your spouse and your daily martyrdom in service to them”

Built different

[Amy @amytheartist]

People keep asking about my wedding and saying “It’s YOUR DAY, you do whatever YOU want!!”

It’s God’s day as far as I’m concerned, and I blame modern women for setting up the expectation of a gigantic ego-fest

[mary @momslop]

Trump in the oval office rn

[Angelina Serbska ☦️ @Angelina_Lina8]

**7 Secrets of Happiness from the Athonite Monks**

1. **Faith in God**
A woman once asked St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia why he called himself happy despite his poor health. The saint replied: *"Read the Holy Scriptures, go to church, have a spiritual father, receive the Holy Mysteries—then you will find the Joy you seek. I am sick, but I am happy. When you draw closer to Christ, you will find Joy in your life."*

2. **Freedom from Vanity and Anxiety**
*"Once, a doctor from America visited me. He spoke about life there, where people have turned into machines, spending entire days at work—each family member must have their own car, their own TV. So they exhaust themselves, earning lots of money just to say later that they are well-off and happy. Such a life, filled with inner anxiety and endless racing, is not happiness but hellish torment."*
—St. Paisios of Mount Athos

3. **A Sober Mind**
*A man who couldn’t swim was flailing in panic in a river. He stirred up splashes, and waves spread across the water. When he finally got out, he saw that the river was perfectly calm—he had been struggling against waves he himself had created. All misfortunes begin within us. But if you bring order to your thoughts, those misfortunes will end within you."*
—Symeon of Athos

4. **A Pure Heart**
*"Happiness is a pure heart that becomes the throne of God. As the Lord says to those with a pure heart: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people’ (2 Cor. 6:16). What more could they lack? Nothing. Because they possess the greatest good within their hearts—God Himself!"*
—Nektarios of Aegina

5. **The Ability to Forgive**
Through forgiveness, a person frees their heart from the burden of old resentments, and a joyful heart is always happy. *"This is our law: if you forgive, it means the Lord has forgiven you."*
—Silouan the Athonite

6. **Give More Than You Take**
To become happy yourself, you must share joy and happiness with others. It may seem like no secret, but according to Monk Symeon of Athos, *"this skill is the rarest among people, but whoever masters it becomes happy."*

7. **Be Content with Little**
*"Desires are the trash of the world."* —Symeon of Athos
*"People buy… buy… buy things—cars, electronics, and so much more—and naturally, they never have enough money, so they live in constant anxiety. When you are content with little, you don’t need to work as much. Then you’ll have more time to pray, enjoy family warmth, and live without constant stress."*
—St. Paisios of Mount Athos

[Alexandra ☦️ @TheFancyFasho]

@NympheRhea Fabulous, Rhèa! ❤️

[Fr. Borjan Vitanov @prezviteros]

"Never trust your own thoughts. Live simply and without excessive thinking, like a child with his father.
Faith, without overthinking, works miracles.
Live with patience, without overanalyzing."

+ St. Paisios the Athonite
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[Rhéa Maria ☦️📿⚜️ @RheaMaria_]

Beautiful day of Saint Constantine and Helen, equal to the Apostles ♥️