Angelicas Grass

༒︎ Pro Femininity, Pro Life, Pro Family, Pro Beauty ✧˖° philosophy, classic literature, mythology, language, maths, and religion nerd જ⁀➴ .·:*¨

[Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎ @archisoteric]

“The Orthodox Church doesn’t read the Bible… they relegate it beneath the church fathers!”

Reality: each & every Sunday, during the Divine Liturgy at every single Orthodox parish, more scripture is being read & hymned, than there is at any “Bible-only” evangelical church.

[Dmitry @blessedmikko]

‘Everyone baptised in the name of the Trinity is a Christian, whatever confession he may belong to. The true faith is one—the Orthodox; yet all Christian confessions also continue to exist by the long-suffering of the Almighty. The Gospel is one and the same everywhere and for all, though it is not understood and explained by all in the same way.
The errors of those who have fallen away from the Orthodox Catholic Church are not to be reproached to those who from birth have been brought up in one or another confession. Simple souls believe in simplicity according to the teaching entrusted to them, without being troubled by religious controversies inaccessible to them. Their spiritual guides will answer to God for them.
Learned theologians are found among all Christian peoples, and devout people have been and will be found both in the Greek-Catholic, Orthodox Church and in the Roman Catholic Church. True religious tolerance does not harden itself at the wall that divides Christians, but grieves for those in error and prays “for the union of all.”’
–St. Philaret (Drozdov)

[Benjamin Michael @RealBenMichael]

I don’t want an America First movement led by fat people, e-girls, Muslims, abortionists, and homosexuals who all just happen to hate Israel

[Jonah In Wales 🦊 @JonahInWales]

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[Orthodox Christian @orthodox_33ad]

If we ourselves do not learn humility, God will not stop humbling us.

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

[Fr. Michael Lillie @FrLillie]

If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.

“Never speak to your wife in a mundane way but with compliments, with respect and with much love. Tell her that you love her more than your own life, because this present life is nothing, and that your only hope is that the two of you pass through this life in such a way that in the world to come, you will be united in perfect love.

Say to her, ‘Our time here is brief and fleeting, but if we are pleasing to God, we can exchange this life for the Kingdom to come. Then we will be perfectly one both with Christ and with each other, and our pleasure will know no bounds. I value your love above all things, and nothing would be so bitter or painful to me as our being at odds with each other. Even if I lose everything, any affliction is tolerable if you will be true to me.’

Show her that you value her company, and prefer being at home to being out at the marketplace. Esteem her in the presence of your friends and children. Praise and show admiration for her good acts; and if she ever does anything foolish, advise her patiently. Pray together at home and go to Church; when you come back home, let each ask the other the meaning of the readings and the prayers. If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.”

St John Chrysostom

[Jonah In Wales 🦊 @JonahInWales]

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[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

… and what’s keeping you from spreading the gospel
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[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

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[Iustinian ☦︎ @Iustinica59]

"I would rather surrender my head to you than to change my faith. I was born a Christian, and I shall die a Christian."
- St. John the Russian

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The man who never spoke a word is called the Terror of Demons.

In the entire Bible, St. Joseph never speaks a single word. He is silent but he acts.

He wakes up at midnight to flee to Egypt. He protects the Virgin. He raises the Son of God. His title in the litany is Terror Daemonum (Terror of Demons). Why?

Because Satan fears silence. Satan fears the man who does his duty without complaining, without bragging, and without hesitation. St. Joseph is the model of the interior life. This makes him the perfect spiritual weapon in quiet spiritual combat.

In the age of fatherlessness & impurity we need the spirit of St Joseph more than ever.

Our modern world is plagued by weak men, broken homes & the collapse of fatherhood. St. Joseph is the antidote to the age.

St Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us!

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

"I am the Alpha and the Omega"

Revelation 1:8

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“The greatest sin is to forget that we are sinners.”
- St. Mark the Ascetic

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

God chooses the unworthy that recognizes they are unworthy, he chooses those of a low-estate, and those lacking in worldly means, so that there can be no doubt that the glory belongs to God alone and not the will of man.

He has chosen the foolish things, to shame the wise. And the despised things to bring to ruin that which is highly desired in the eyes of men.

Let us therefore endeavor to be fools for Christ, embracing our pitiful state, that we may be counted acceptable to receive all matter of graces, and blessings, and gifts but also insults, and persecutions, and hardships for His name’s sake.

For when we are weak, we are strong, and when we are last we shall be made first, and when we are humble we shall be exalted. Amen.