“The more people distance themselves from a natural, simple life and embrace luxury, the more they suffer from anxiety. The result of worldly pleasures and self-indulgence is worldly anxiety."
— St. Paisios the Athonite
something I overheard today:
"All religions are based around cleanliness, the Church invented Holy water so people would actually wash their hands"
where do people get this stuff from??
"The taste of sacrificial joy is unknown to today's people, and that's why they are so tortured; for only when you co-participate in the pain of another do miracles happen. If a person doesn't cultivate within himself the spirit of self-sacrifice, then he thinks only of himself and doesn't receive divine grace. The more a person forgets himself; the more God remembers him. Those who die heroically don't really die, and where there is no heroism, nothing worthwhile can be expected." - Saint Paisios
The church built by angels in Cyprus with 5th-century Byzantine mosaics and beautiful ancient icons that attest to the two-millennia history of Christianity in Cyprus.
“The demons fear the image of the Cross, and they do not endure to see the Sign of the Cross depicted even in the air. The Cross gives the soul strength, power, meaning, and divine wisdom.”
+ St. Symeon the New Theologian
Couldn’t agree more with you Jeremy 👏 I hate this as well it’s just so damn rude and disrespectful.
Do basic English manners not exist anymore, this sort of behaviour would never of happened 20 or 30 years ago.