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Orthodoxy: the unbroken unity of the Christian faith, the “One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church,” "catholic" meaning full and complete, lacking nothing. The Orthodox Church precedes Roman Catholicism and denominations. The Bible came from us!

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“St Elisabeth Convent invites you to virtually attend a livestream of All-Night Vigil at our church in honour of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God on March 19th at 6 PM Minsk time / 4 PM Stockholm / 3 PM London / 11 AM New York / 10 AM Chicago / 8 AM Los Angeles and 2 AM (March 20th) Melbourne.”

To watch the livestream online, please click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuMsVjDuopg

“If you would like our Sisters to pray for you and your dear ones during this Lenten season, click on this link and send us your prayer requests for the living and for the departed: https://obitel-minsk.org/prayer-request”


St Gregory Palamas performed many miracles of healing of illnesses in the few years before his repose.

In St Gregory's death we can recall his "escape" from prison as Archbishop under Patriarch Isidore-- and his glorification as Archbishop. Another Archbishop offered St Gregory an escape from this earthly life to greater glory. On the eve of his repose St John Chrysostom appeared to him in a vision. With the words “To the heights! To the heights!” St Gregory fell asleep in the Lord on November 14, 1359 and was canonized in 1368.

“O light of Orthodoxy, teacher of the Church, its confirmation, O ideal of monks and invincible champion of theologians, O wonder working Gregory, glory of Thessalonica and preacher of grace, always intercede before the Lord that our souls may be saved."

- Troparion (Tone 8)


St Gregory faced a challenge from a learned monk Barlaam, who declared mental prayer a heretical error. Barlaam ridiculed the teachings of the monks about the methods of prayer and about the uncreated light. Barlaam’s teachings caused great disturbance in the Church even after he was anathemized. However, Barlaam's disciples continued to cause a ruckus.

John XIV Kalekos, Patriarch from 1341-1347, swayed by Barlaam's disciple Akyndinos, blamed St Gregory as cause of the disorders and disturbances in the Church and had him locked up in prison for four years. When John the XIV was replaced on the patriarchal throne by Isidore, St Gregory was set free and was made Archbishop of Thessalonica.

The people of Thessalonica were not quick to accept St Gregory the Archbishop, and he was compelled to live on the move. During one of his travels to Constantinople, his ship fell into the hands of the Turks. As captive, St Gregory preached to a captive audience of Christian prisoners-- and even to his Moslem captors. This did not bode well with some of the Moslems and he was beaten and ransomed. After a year, he returned to Thessalonica.


The Second Sunday of Great Lent is a second commemoration of St Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica and Wonder-worker. (Nov 14). It is also a second “Triumph of Orthodoxy.”

St Gregory was a defender of the contemplative life of hesychasm (inner silence) and the uncreated Light of Tabor and the Divine Energies of God-- through which man can have true communion with God.

St Gregory maintained the Orthodox doctrine that while it is impossible to know God in his essence (God in Himself), it is possible to know God in his energies (to know what God does, and who He is in relation to the creation and to man). In this way, the prophets had greater knowledge of God, because they had actually seen or heard God himself.

When the Apostles Peter, James and John witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, St Gregory on Mount Tabor, St Gregory maintained, they were in fact seeing the uncreated light of God-- a light that can be seen by others with repentance, spiritual discipline and contemplative prayer.


Let not one think, my fellow Christian, that only priests and monks need to pray without ceasing and not laymen No, no; every Christian without exception ought to dwell always in prayer.

+St Gregory Palamas


On March 18, 1956, St. Nikolai Velimirovich fell asleep in the Lord in his humble cell in the main building of St. Tikhon's Seminary in South Canaan, PA, where he had been the Rector.

“Born at Lelich in Serbia, you served as archpastor at the church of Saint Nahum in Ochrid. You presided on the throne of Saint Sava at Zhicha, teaching the people of God and enlightening them with the Gospel, bringing them to repentance and love for Christ. And for His sake you endured suffering at Dachau. Therefore, Nicholai, we glorify you as one newly well pleasing to God.”


Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

+Saint Nikolai (Velimirović) of Zhicha, “the Serbian Chrysostom” (Mar 18)


These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren. My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother.

—Proverbs 6:16-20


As I arise today,
may the strength of God pilot me,
the power of God uphold me,
the wisdom of God guide me.
May the eye of God look before me,
the ear of God hear me,
the word of God speak for me.
May the hand of God protect me,
the way of God lie before me,
the shield of God defend me,
the host of God save me.
May Christ shield me today.
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit,
Christ when I stand,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Amen

+Prayer of St Patrick, Bishop of Armagh and Enlightener of Ireland (March 17)




As a priest was walking alone on the road on a hot day, suddenly in front of him a man with a rifle jumped up out of the bushes.

The man said to the priest, "I have killed 99 men, and you will be the 100th among them."

The priest replied: "I am ready to die, but please give me a little water to drink before you kill me, I am very thirsty."

The man was confused for a while, then the priest was escorted at gunpoint to his hut, where he was offered a glass of water to drink.

While the priest was drinking, the killer died of a heart attack.

Angels descended from heaven to accompany the killer's soul to paradise, but demons argued, "This man has killed 99 men, in addition to having committed many smaller sins. His soul belongs to us."

However, the angels answered the demons: “But he also did two great good deeds for the gospel of Christ that surpassed all his sins. First, he confessed his 99 crimes to a priest, and secondly, he offered water to the thirsty.

No sin, no matter how many times it has been repeated, is greater than God's mercy.

☦ Saint Nicholay Velimirovich




"O strange Orthodox Church, so poor and weak, with neither the organization nor the culture of the West, staying afloat as if by a miracle in the face of so many trials, tribulations and struggles; a Church of contrasts, both so traditional and so free, so archaic and so alive, so ritualist and so personally involved, a Church where the priceless pearl of the Gospel is assiduously preserved, sometimes under a layer of dust; a Church which in shadows and silence maintains above all the eternal values of purity, poverty, asceticism, humility and forgiveness; a Church which has often not known how to act, but which can sing of the joy of Pascha like no other."

—Fr. Lev Gillet




A new video from the Volgograd region of Russia shows the walls and icons of St Nicholas the Wonderworker church heavily streaming myrrh and the Mother of God of Donetsk Icon streaming blood.

O Lord, have mercy on us!
Most Holy Theotokos, save us!

VIDEO at http://mewe.com/join/orthodoxfaith


Sofia, Bulgaria— winter night photo by Georgi Hadjiiski


The Love of Heaven Roars with the Thunder of Anathema

“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,” says the Holy Apostle Paul, “let him be anathema.” — 1 Cor. 16:22

“After this, what sin or vice will be free from anathema?



Let us rather thank the Lord that the terrible fate awaiting sinners isn’t hidden from us, and that what will befall us beyond the grave, if we do not repent, is clearly shown to us. If the love of Heaven itself roars over us with the thunder of anathema, it is to arouse us from the mortal sleep of sin.

Let us be grateful for this care over us, and upon returning home, instead of talking idly about how the anathemas were proclaimed in church, let us examine whether something in our morals and our lives is subject to anathema.”

—St. Innocent of Kherson , from “A Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy”

https://orthochristian.com/145128.html




On the 1st Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we commemorate the “Triumph of Orthodoxy,” the restoration of the holy icons in the reign of the holy Empress Theodora.

St John of Damascus on Holy Images: "I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake, and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honouring that matter which works my salvation."


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