Sick Man

☦︎ (EO) It's all about mindset.

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on me a Sinner

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@TrueMaga_

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@JayDyer 😂

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@IndianaBrunner Lol

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@iris_seraphina @C2Antiquity

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This machine is a beast! 💪

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@C2Antiquity @_InTheFilth Lord have mercy

[Father Christopher @FChristopher77]

In a world that constantly asks you “What did you study?”, “What titles do you have?”, “How many people follow you?”, Saint Silouan the Athonite answers us with his life.

He was born into a family of peasants in Russia. He received very little schooling. On Mount Athos he lived for decades as a simple monk. He worked at the mill and served as steward, meaning he looked after the workers and the household affairs. The Gospel was his book of books. He did not write treatises and he did not give lectures.

And yet people sought him out. Monks, pilgrims, wounded souls came to him. They were looking for a man in whom God dwelt, not a scholar. Some of the brothers in the monastery saw nothing special in him. To them he was only “a simple peasant,” an unlettered monk whom you would pass by without stopping. And after his falling asleep, when his disciple, Saint Sophrony, made his writings known, some were astonished: “Silouan? But he was an ordinary man…”

This is the mystery of holiness: it does not shout, it does not display itself, it does not demand recognition. Silouan did not defend himself and did not grow angry. He prayed, with tears, for the whole world, even for those who despised him. He had received from Christ the word that he also left to us: “Keep your mind in hell and do not despair.”

Our age gathers information but loses wisdom. We know much about God, yet we know Him little. The Holy Fathers say clearly that the true theologian is the one who truly prays.

True wisdom is born from a humble heart, not from a library. Humility opens the door of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit makes the simple person wiser than all the wise of the world.

Perhaps today we do not lack books. We lack humility.

Holy Venerable Father Silouan, pray to God for us!

[Dr. David Patrick Harry @DrDPHarry]

Watching 5 hours of football does not make you an athlete.

Watching 5 hours of Orthodox content does not make you holy.

The number one metric for long life is movement. Fitness is so powerful that even smokers who train live longer than smokers who sit. It does not cancel smoking. It shows how central the body is.

• Low cardiorespiratory fitness carries a mortality risk comparable to smoking in a Cleveland Clinic study of 122,000 people.
• Each 1-MET increase in fitness is linked to about 11–17% lower all-cause mortality.
• Exercise cuts death risk by around 30% even among smokers. It does not outrun cigarettes though.

A lot of American convert culture has monasticized everything and split the spiritual from the physical. That is not the Faith. Theosis is of the whole person.

• “We do not name ‘man’ as being only the soul, or only the body, but both of them together.” — St Gregory Palamas
• “The body is deified along with the soul.” — St Maximus the Confessor
• “Man is not only the soul, but the soul and the body.” — St John Chrysostom

Train the temple.

#Orthodox #Theosis #BodyAsTemple #OrthodoxMen #FaithAndFitness #Longevity #Exercise

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

Allowing politicians to wear the mask of incompetence only lets them off the hook.
If the welfare of the nation was their goal, then they'd rightly be fools. But it isn't. They clearly serve a different agenda. Evil is going unnamed.

[Hungry Heart @YiannisYiannis8]

«Αν ένας λαός ή μία πολιτεία υποφέρουν, τότε πρέπει να μετανοήσουν οι πάντες κι ο Θεός θα τα εξομαλύνει όλα προς το καλό.»
+ Άγιος Σιλουανός ο Αθωνίτης

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@Bornakang Irish chicken goes well with almost everything.

[Energetic Procession @Acolyte83349490]

On Ortlund's remarks about saintly invocation being post 2nd/3rd century, can Ortlund show Augustinian predestinarianism prior to the late fourth/early fifth century? How about Limited Atonement?

No, he can't. Even Augustine strained to do the former when pressed.

On the other hand, baptismal regeneration can be shown to have existed in the time frame Ortlund denotes, yet this doesn't apparently move the ball for him. So, it wouldn't matter if we found saintly invocation expressly exhibited in the first or second centuries. Ortlund would just dismiss it out of hand as well and retreat to his own judgment as to what scripture teaches. That is, he will only be bound by his own reading of Scripture.

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@BethanyForTruth One of the most un-American statements ever spoken.

[Grok @grok]

Public searches across web and X turn up no prominent Orthodox bishops or priests who enforced COVID closures, vaccine pressures, or related measures later issuing clear public apologies or admitting those steps were inadequate. Isolated private regrets may exist, but hierarchical statements and records show continuity rather than reversal.

[Jay Dyer @JayDyer]

Have any Orthodox priests or bishops apologized for their atrocious behavior during Covid, persecuting half the Church? I’m 💯 sure if “Orthobros” had been wrong about Covid we would be expected to make endless public humiliation apologies, but not a single cleric has said anything to my knowledge, since we were correct about Fauci and all of it.

[Jay Dyer @JayDyer]

If the Church of the first millennium was exclusivist and was not ecumenist, then by default the only Church left that still teaches exclusivism and rejects ecumenism is Orthodoxy, so it is the One True Church.