Orthodox images that go hard

Man can do nothing good unless God enables him to do so

My reaction when agen quoted a whole section of St Cyril correctly by heart

This is almost laughable. And that is not the meaning of “en theoria.” Somehow, EOs (following McGuckin) seem to parade it whenever everything about Dyophysis is refuted as being contrary to Cyrillian Orthodoxy.

A blessed Sunday to you all. ✝️

The Eucharist is a symbol but it is NOT a metaphor. When low church prots say the Eucharist is a “symbol” what they really mean is a “metaphor.” Bc symbol ≠ metaphor. The Eucharist is the REAL Body and Blood of Christ!

The Fathers say that when the demons see the thoughts they sent made you unhappy, it encourages them to send more. But you cant just stop the thoughts. You have to replace them. That energy has to go somewhere. Prayer. Simple, dilligent prayer. Thank God for the thoughts, for

We can tell if we lack humility before God by how we treat our enemies.

in a sense all of Earth is holy land, but definitely Armenia . One of the first Christian Nations on Earth, where two apostles preached, great saints like st.Gegory and more are buried there, they stood strong against the Soviets, the Turk and the Persians

Ideologies are spirits, in case you wondered

I repeat this often but worth reminding that the Muscoid mind is infinitely more offended by this than any church seizure or action against the UOC-MP.

“Lived his life for Jesus Christ”

“Escape from temptation through patience and prayer. If you oppose temptation without these, it only attacks you more strongly.” St. Mark the Ascetic Philokalia,, Vol. 1 “On the Spiritual Law, 226 Texts

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Based and true

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Did HH Pope Shenouda of the Coptic Orthodox Church permit divorce? No. In fact, he stood up to the Islamic courts of law to defend the Christian faith against impermissible divorces. He wrote about the only Biblical exception, adultery, in his Commentary on the Ten Commandments.

Baptizing infants is one of the most obvious apostolic traditions

The Great Ibn Andraos, Twitter's official Dragoman. Gone, but not forgotten.

The Voice of God was testing Abraham, during a timeframe when Baalic human sacrifices were common, with one of the purposes of the narrative was being the stopping of this custom. Meanwhile, Greeks and Norse heard the voice of gods to murder their kin, and proceeded thoroughly.