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To fear death is to forfeit life

[tel ☧ @rain_axis]

@ZenanFGC INDEED

[Logos Cinema @logoscinema]

'New Men' (2020) follows one year inside a Russian Orthodox monastery in rural West Virginia, where men leave behind former identities to embrace lives of prayer, obedience, and asceticism. As the brotherhood prepares for Pascha, Father Justin approaches his final vows—and a commitment to remain at the monastery for the rest of his life.

Now streaming on Logos Cinema

[ʜᴇʀQʟᴇs @herqles_es]

🇪🇸 | Ferrán Torres con su gorra de «Make Spain Great Again» durante la celebración del Mundial en Madrid.

[vlad ☦︎ @vladorthodoxy]

If the Kingdom of God has a sound, it is found in the Divine Liturgy.

Go to Divine Liturgy. Christ waits for you. ☦️📿

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

>30 minute break when you're dominating
>2 legit goals disallowed
>argie dives and fouls every minute
>ref tries to blind your players with spray
>messi tries to get one of your best players booked
>still wins

I KNEEL

[tel ☧ @rain_axis]

@OrdinariateUSA this is because in the Orthodox Church, many laymen and clergy feel like there can be no reunification without subjugation. Many also view the Fall of Constantinople as divine punishment to the Bishops for entertaining the ideas of the Council of Florence.

[Zoso🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

No one talks about how dominant of a force Sweden was culturally in the 2000s and early 2010s.

Pirate Bay/Copyleft. CSGO. DotA. Pirate Parties. Basshunter. Hatten är din. Caramelldansen. Basshunter. Paradox. Avicii.

[The OrthoBilly ☦︎ 🛤️⛰️ @orthobilly]

Generally in favor, but imho the most likely development of the Faith in the U.S. will still have a Byzantine core, but will have (through the conversion of locals) become truly American.

“Amero-Byzantine,” if you will.

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Erling Haaland on breaking down in tears after Norway’s 2–1 extra-time defeat to England in the FIFA World Cup.

🗣️ “Those tears weren’t because I missed out on a semi-final. They came because I felt like I had let an entire nation down. When you wear the Norway shirt, you don’t just play for yourself you play for every child dreaming in the streets, every family watching from home, and every supporter who believed in us. That weight is impossible to describe.”

“People will see me crying and call it weakness. Let them. I call it love. If losing for your country doesn’t break your heart, then football doesn’t mean enough to you. I would rather cry after giving everything than smile knowing I could have done more.”

“I looked around that dressing room and saw teammates devastated. Some couldn’t speak. Some were staring at the floor. Others were crying just like I was. That’s when it truly hit me. Our dream was over. All the sacrifices, all the hard work, all the belief… gone in a single night.”

“To every Norway supporter, I’m sorry we couldn’t give you one more match. You deserved to see us in the semi-finals. You stood by us from the first minute of this tournament until the last, and hearing you sing even after the final whistle made the pain even harder to take. We heard you. We felt your love.”

“England were better when it mattered most, and they deserve credit. But don’t think this defeat will break us. It will stay with me for the rest of my life. Every time I train, every time I score, every time I wear this badge again, I’ll remember this night and the tears that came with it.”

“This isn’t goodbye to our dream. It’s a painful chapter in our story. Right now my heart is broken, and nothing can change that. But I promise the people of Norway one thing we will get back up. We will fight again. And one day, these tears will be replaced by tears of joy. Until then, I’ll carry this pain with me every single day.”

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Norway's youth sports model is super unique:

• No scorekeeping until age 13
• Participation trophies for everyone
• No travel teams or national championships
• No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings
• Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year

The result?

A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million).

And it's not just winter sports...

Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field).

So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down.

READ: https://t.co/PeD07abUY3

[MP𖤐 @MagicalPep]

There was a time when the two funniest goalkeepers on the planet were both in Manchester. 😭😂

[tel ☧ @rain_axis]

@OrdinariateUSA @honduras_B_ Orthodox for 15+ years here, it’s growing IRL on a scale that the Church is overwhelmed by. If you’re chronically online it’ll be seen as larp. Go to an Orthodox church and you’ll probably see otherwise

[Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 @OrthodoxPole81]

Americans are, for the most part, descendants of peoples who were Orthodox Christians, be they in the Latin West or Greek East. We have an obligation to return to the Ancient Faith of our fathers.

[Aaron Andrew Hickman @hickman0000]

“America is your cradle and your earthly motherland. It is a wonderful God’s country, and you are expected to be wonderful God’s people in this country. Remember that our greatest contribution to America is of a spiritual and moral nature. And that is precisely what America needs today. That is what every Christian country today needs most of all—in boundless measure. For all nations, especially the Christians nowadays traveling as if in a wilderness of confusion created by senseless materialism and its blind daughter atheism. I offer this to what leading American men and women are saying: ‘The only hope for us and for the world is to return to religion.’ Again I say: ‘Our hope is in the Church.’ You ought to listen to these words, too, and to ponder them. We live in very tragic times, which are made more tragic by easy-going and self-indulgent people who have never read the story of Sodom, of Laish, or of Capernaum.

“If I am correct in my observations, the greatest struggle of America these days is the struggle for the priority and superiority of spiritual and moral values over techniques and technological lordship: in other words, for predominance of the spiritual over the material, of goodness over cleverness. The Serbs often say of a clever man: ‘He is clever as the devil.’ They never say: ‘He is good as the devil.’

“America is constantly sounding the sympathetic watchwords: ‘dignity of man’ and ‘liberty of men and nations.’ But the deepest meaning of these watchwords can be found in the sacred teaching of Him without Whom we can do nothing. That meaning is found most explicitly in the threefold program of our Orthodox Church: spiritual vision, moral discipline, and competition in doing good.

“For the dignity of man—in other words, the superior value of man—has real and eternal meaning only if you know and acknowledge the Kingdom of Heaven as the true fatherland of all men, from which we originated and to which we are returning as children of one common Father, Who is in heaven. And freedom is most useful, joyful, and sacred if you exercise moral discipline over yourself and practice competition in doing good.

“These are the fundamentals upon which you can build your individual and communal happiness. And you have received these fundamentals as a glorious heritage, never to part with. By practicing this spiritual heritage in your daily life, you will become an adornment to America. And through you all Americans will come to know and appreciate our ancient Church of the East and her spiritual heroes, whom we are praising today.”

- St. Nikolai Velimirovich

[American Orthodox Churches @usaorthoposting]

"If the best of Byzantium has survived, it is in the United States, and if there is an Orthodox political ideal, it is enshrined in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence."
-Metropolitan Anthony Bashir

[Patriarch Prime, PhD ☦️ 🇺🇸 🇦🇶 @KalebAtlanta]

“Be yourself, American.”

“You have a tradition. You have a background that is given by God.”

“You have an identity behind you. You have a culture behind you.”

“You have to come into Orthodoxy with the whole destiny of the American people.”

Blessed Roman Braga ☦️🇺🇸

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Since it's Independence Day, the leftists and their third worldist friends are crying about Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

Here is what Hiroshima & Nagasaki look like today. Instead of being angry and resentful, try building something useful for once.

[tel ☧ @rain_axis]

LOL

[War Flash @WarFlash_2630]

🇺🇦🇷🇺Footage taken from a Ukrainian drone showing two Ukrainian soldiers and two Russian soldiers talking in no man’s land/grey zone during the evacuation of their fallen comrades.

Be interesting to know what they spoke about in that brief moment.