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In rigorous pursuit of the Truth.

[Father Christopher @FChristopher77]

Semantron beating competition for high school students in Romania.

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@Jeem196 they was hittin on you

[Patristic Nectar @PatristicNectar]

This is satanic.

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

A ten-year-old pianist lost two fingers. Three weeks later, they grew back.

They had not been reattached, nor had they been sewn back on. They simply grew back.

The bone, the nail—everything.
The doctor stood in front of the dressing table and repeated the same thing out loud:"I don't understand. I don't understand what's going on.

A bone cannot grow back. Things like that just don't happen!"But the bone had grown. This is the most powerful miracle of St. Luke of Crimea that I have ever heard of.

Here is how it all happened.
In 2001, in Theodosia, lived ten-year-old Nazar Stodnicenko.

He had been playing the piano since he was five years old, devoting all his time and talent to music.

One summer, while running to play at his grandmother's house, he slammed a door and an accident happened. His fingers were crushed by an iron lock.

I will not relay all the details, but it was a true tragedy for the family.
They arrived at the hospital, where the doctors stitched up what remained of his fingers.
After the surgery, the first thought on the minds of both the child and his parents was the same:"How will he play the piano now?"For the boy, music was his whole life. His mother began to pray for her son to St. Luke of Crimea, an archbishop, surgeon, and saint of the 20th century. She placed an icon on the child's bandaged hand.

One day, she took Nazar to the relics of the saint in Simferopol.
Nazar himself prayed as much as he could, with the simple sincerity of a child.

He said, "Saint Luke, I don't know what you're going to do, but I want to play the piano."It was a simple and heartfelt prayer.

During the third dressing change, the doctor stood there with his eyes wide open, watching and saying:"His bone is starting to grow. This can't be happening.

I can't explain it."But the miracle happened right before his eyes.
Three weeks later, his fingers were completely restored.

They were flawless.
The doctor still could not believe it, continuously trying to explain it from a scientific perspective. He kept repeating:

"I know this should be impossible... And I realize that I don't understand anything."

But the bone continued to grow. Less than a year later, Nazar won second place in a piano competition.

Today, all the medical documents, certificates, X-rays, and competition diplomas are kept in the Museum of St. Luke of Crimea at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Simferopol.

There are two exhibits there dedicated to this story.

You can go and see it all with your own eyes. Nazar himself speaks about it whenever he is asked.

Saint Luke heard a child's prayer.

He heard a mother's prayer, and he came to the rescue.

That is why, when great trouble comes, let us pray to St. Luke of Crimea.

He will surely help.

— Orthodox Chernihiv

[Father George Despodov @GeorgeDespodov]

"Happiness is a pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God"- St. Nektarios of Aegina

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@noetic_healing @NickHintonn @EvilTo50934

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@AudioScribeOW I am sad to see these polarizing and judgemental takes. While the Divine Liturgy is the wrong time for her to lecture, she is a wealth of illuminating knowledge, historical, scriptural, etc. The truth of this matter is nuanced, as we all are flawed but may also produce fruit.

[Death to the World @dttwzine]

New Martyr Valeriu Gafencu reposed in the Lord in the Targu Ocna communist prison on February 18th, 1952.

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@NickHintonn bruh ive been saying looksmaxxing is gayness all along from my side of the bell curve

[Daily Romania @daily_romania]

Romanian children carry icons and crosses during Epiphany procession

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@RichardArion1 @gstate55 @RealBenLuigi fornication is fornication is gay

[Orthodox Meme Squad @OrthoMemeSquad]

“The century of the ‘Church of Immigrants’ has ended; the century of evangelization has begun. Orthodoxy’s mission is no longer primarily geographical but existential.”

Metropolitan Saba of the Antiochian Americans

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@Littoria14 Was Christianity compatible with Roman nationalism?

[Jeed @Water_Melonius]

@JimJatras @LexetPhil @SaltyPalamite Great post, thanks

[Fr Joseph Huneycutt @Orthodixie]

St Sophrony of Essex:

[har·mo·ny @HarmonyCreates]

Saint Paisios and his bird friend, Olet