Maria🐨

We're made of stardust💫 Child of God. Mother. Wife. Nature Lover.☦️👨‍👩‍👧🌻WunderlustHufflepuff. 🌚🌍🌝

[Orthodox Christian @orthodox_33ad]

🔸 July 19 - Saint Makrina the Younger 🔸

Today, we commemorate our venerable mother Saint Macrina the Younger, the elder sister of Saint Basil the Great. Saint Macrina was born into a pious and holy family of Cappadocia in the year 327. She was named after her grandmother Saint Macrina the Elder, her father was Saint Basil the Elder, and her mother was Saint Emmelia. She was the eldest of ten children, five of whom are commemorated as Saints including: Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, Naucratius of Mount Nitria, and Theosebia the Deaconess.

The young Macrina was betrothed by her parents to a certain pious youth, but her fiance died suddenly before the wedding. Many young men sought marriage with her, but Makrina decided not to remarry, and instead made a vow of perpetual chastity, consecrating herself to the Lord. Saint Macrina lived in the home of her parents, helping them fulfill the household tasks, and helping with the upbringing of her younger siblings. She became known to her brothers as “Macrina the Teacher”, such was the great wisdom she imparted to them.

When her father passed away, Macrina consoled her mother and persuaded her to take monastic vows alongside her. Together they withdrew to their secluded family estate in Pontus, where many women joined them in embracing the ascetic life. Their community soon became a convent. All the nuns here lived under one roof and held everything in common: they ate, worked, kep vigil and prayed together. The harmony of this model community of women was unspoiled by anger, jealousy, hatred, or pride.

After her mother’s death, Macrina guided the sisters of the convent as the abbess. Saint Gregory of Nyssa wrote a work on his sister called the 'Life of Macrina' in which he describes the sanctity of her life. He also recalls a miracle in which the Saint healed a girl who was afflicted with an eye disease by her prayers. Having lived as a model of Christian virtue, Saint Macrina reposed in 379. A portion of her left hand is kept at the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, and her sarcophagus can be found in the Church of Saint Macrina in Axo, Cappadocia.

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Did you know that today the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates the family of Saint Basil the Great for the first time? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The feast was established in the context of the 2026 Commemorative and Solemn Year, with the family of St Basil featured on the year's representative icon.

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“The greatest victory is the victory over oneself.”
- Elder Iustin Pârvu

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“God never gives you a Cross without first weighing and measuring it very carefully to make sure that the Cross will result in your spiritual growth."
⁃ Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra

[Orthodoxy Above The Clouds @noetic_healing]

may America become orthodox

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Saint Elizabeth, the New Martyr, pray to God for us!

[Basilica.ro (EN) @BasilicaNews]

Many and blessed years!

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‘Lord, have mercy on families that are going through trying times. Pour your abundant love upon them.’
- St Paisios of Mount Athos

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

Για τίποτε να μην έχετε άγχος. Η στενοχώρια δηλητηριάζει την ψυχή και φέρνει ανωμαλίες και στο σώμα !.. να ευχαριστούμε. Ό,τι και αν τύχει. Και πολλὲς φορές αλλάζει και τη ροή των γεγονότων και την πορεία των πραγμάτων των δυσχερών. Τ’ αλλάζει όλα…

~ Άγιος Παΐσιος ο Αγιορείτης, ο εμψυχωτής και παρηγορητής, ο παγκόσμιος Άγιος της Ορθοδοξίας

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St Veronica🗓️July 12

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“From the helm of the mind depends everything. If you don’t have order in your mind, you can’t have order in your life.”
- St. Arsenie Boca

[Maria🐨 @mazziblink]

@ProjectConstitu The 2nd witness in Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing Day 1 that @baroncoleman mentioned is not sure of the accent. Sounds like it’s a New Zealand accent. Another weird Beehive coincidence? @RealCandaceO @ProjectConstitu

[Maria🐨 @mazziblink]

@baroncoleman @RealCandaceO The 2nd witness in Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing Day 1 that you mentioned you’re not sure of the accent. Sounds like it’s a New Zealand accent. See @ProjectConstitu recent post about New Zealand ties. Weird.

[Angelina Serbska ☦️ @Angelina_Lina8]

I have heard recently a beautiful comparison between the role of a woman in the family and the various wonderworking icons of the Theotokos.

We have first the Theotokos as Guidance (Hodgitria) as the woman is the guide of her children‚ showing them the path to God. Then she is Quick To Hear (Gorgopikoos) as a mother is always quick to listen to all the problems in a household. She is also The Unexpected Joy‚ as women are capable to create the most sublime and unexpected joy in one’s marriage. She is also the Sweet Kiss (Glycophyloussa) expressing the tenderness that only a woman can show. We also have her as the Most Caring (Paramythia) because a mother’s heart can understand and soothe the pain like no one else.

Having the Theotokos as a guide and model‚ women can fulfill their vocation as wives and lead a life of sanctity and alignment with their husbands and ultimately with Christ.

Protopresbyter Vasile Tudora

[Senator Babet @senatorbabet]

You’d be mad to invest in Australia after last night’s tax hikes, the country is becoming increasingly unliveable for anyone who wants to build wealth, start a business, or get ahead.

If your dream is to be a permanent wage slave, work in the public service, stay broke forever and die with nothing, then sure Australia is paradise.

But if you want opportunity, ambition, and a future for your family, sadly Australia is no longer that place.

And if you think voting for the Liberal Party is going to make things any better then you have not been paying attention.

Both Labor and Liberal have taken turns to bring the country to where it is today.

[Fr. Andrey @Andreid888]

Christ is Risen! 🕊️☦️

My dear brothers and sisters,

In today’s Gospel, we hear of the healing of the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda.

For thirty-eight years, a man lay in sickness, weakness, and disappointment. Around him were many suffering people, all waiting for healing, all hoping to be first.

Year after year he remained where he was.

Then Christ came.

The Lord looked upon him and asked:

“Do you want to be made well?”
(John 5:6)

At first this question may seem strange. Why ask a suffering man if he wishes to be healed?

Because Christ does not force healing upon anyone.

He addresses the human heart. He calls forth desire, faith, willingness, and repentance.

The man answered with sorrow:

“I have no man to put me into the pool.”

What a painful sentence.

Not only sickness of body, but loneliness of soul.
Not only weakness, but abandonment.
Not only pain, but years without help.
And yet where no man came, God Himself came.

Christ said:

“Rise, take up your bed, and walk.”

And immediately the man was healed.

What thirty-eight years could not do, one word from Christ accomplished.

So it is in our own lives.

Many lie beside invisible pools:

the pool of addiction
the pool of depression
the pool of resentment
the pool of fear
the pool of spiritual laziness
the pool of hopeless waiting

We often say:

“I cannot change.”
“No one helps me.”
“It has been too long.”
“This is simply how I am.”

But Christ still comes to the places where we have given up.

He still asks:

Do you want to be made well?

This question is for all of us.

Do I truly want healing, or only comfort?
Do I desire freedom, or have I become attached to my chains?
Do I seek Christ, or merely relief?

The Lord’s healing is deeper than the body. Afterward He finds the man in the Temple and says:

“Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

This teaches us that the greatest illness is sin, and the greatest healing is repentance.

Christ did not heal him merely to walk on earth, but to walk toward salvation.

So today let us hear the command spoken also to us:

Rise.
Rise from despair.
Rise from delay.
Rise from habits that destroy the soul.
Rise from excuses long repeated.

Take up your bed, meaning the burden that once carried you, and now let it become a witness to God’s mercy.

Walk with Christ.

For when man cannot help, Christ can.
When years cannot heal, Christ can.
When hope seems dead, Christ can.

Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! 🕊️☦️

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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

[Father Christopher @FChristopher77]

The Rainbow – Sign of God’s Grace

The rainbow, with its seven colors, reveals to us the beauty of unity in diversity. Just as white light breaks into seven colors, God’s grace pours forth through the seven Sacraments of the Church: Baptism, Chrismation, Eucharist, Confession, Marriage, Ordination, and Holy Unction.

The same sacred number – seven – reminds us of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord, which adorn our souls.

And the seven daily services (the canonical Hours of the Church) lift us up each day toward heaven, like the rainbow that unites earth with the heavenly vault.

May the light of the rainbow call us to a life full of grace, unity, and glory to God!

[Gabriel @GabrielofBoone]

“What I see around me would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word.”

- St. Paisios the Athonite