8) Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

The Descent of the Holy Spirit. 12th-century Icon. Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt.

🦜 Wise advice. Many such cases. However, speaking from experience, when a priest says "the Fathers say" ... um, ask him which Fathers in private. In fact, warn him in advance that you will ask him on, say, Tuesday next week 🤭

Blessed Feast!

"Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, who hast revealed the fishermen as most wise, having sent upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them Thou hast fished the universe. O Lover of Man, glory to Thee!" Blessed Feast!

MSLFilms ☦️🇬🇪🇺🇸 My pilgrimage to Mt Athos with, ahem, Fr Peter Heers revealed to me that, yes, you can totally fall asleep in stasidia ... but it ain't like the sleep you desire. 🤭

Perhaps. Hear me out. God IS helping us. Wouldn't that be something?

Walked up on a group of catechumens at the Pentecost picnic, and some were saying 'happy feast' to the others. I said "oh, like 'Christ is risen!' we say 'the Spirit has descended!' and the response is 'in tongues of fire!'" And they all believed me until one was like 'really?'

St George’s Monastery, Valley of Christians, 1600+ Years Old. A Rūm Monastery ☦︎

St Columba, pray to God for us!

Hierarchies are the natural order willed by God. Everything has limits within that order. Order results in harmony and life. Chaos is the transgression of limits and the active destruction of order. Chaos destroys, its consequences are discord and death. Order vs chaos.

Virginius MSLFilms ☦️🇬🇪🇺🇸 Goodness. Well, in that case, since my childhood - my family has had a lake house: I've been "baptized" in muddy lake water (Eunomian formula) more than the current number of US bishops. (Not, of course, that any of that matters.)

E very S ingle Tim e.

Based.

Dangit. I thought this was a portion of an icon with the Lord creating ... alas, it's an ad.

Southern Aura

Yes. It is quite excellent.