In having love toward your neighbour, you acquire within yourself, Him, who is most precious in the whole world. -- St. Isaac the Syrian 📖
Not even the gates of hell shall prevail against the church. Orthodox Christians are martyrs (confessors) of …
In having love toward your neighbour, you acquire within yourself, Him, who is most precious in the whole world. -- St. Isaac the Syrian 📖
Not even the gates of hell shall prevail against the church. Orthodox Christians are martyrs (confessors) of this Lord's promise for 2000 years.
Convert to the Orthodox Faith and help us drive out the evil that has corrupted this world.
For there is only One Holy Catholic and
Apostolic Church.💒
Our Faith is serious and great, the church is yeast and her great era is yet to come!
Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro ☦️
REFLECTION ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
We should never despair, for our God
is a loving Father who cares for His children.
In reading the Holy Scriptures and the Lives of the Saints, we are struck at once by the depth of love demonstrated for God by countless holy men and women. For this love Isaiah the prophet suffered martyrdom by being sawn in two; St. Anthony gave up all his material wealth and took to the desert in prayer; St. John Maximovitch adopted orphans, visited the sick in their hospital beds and daily served the Holy Liturgy; Fr Roman Braga and many like him endured fierce torture and isolation in communist prison camps; St. Nicholas left everything in order to bring the good news of Christs life, death and resurrection to the unbeknown people of Japan; St. Nectarios suffered to be despised, falsely accused and exiled; whilst St. Elizabeth together with the Royal Holy Martyrs of Russia fed the poor, cared for the sick and accepted martyrdom on behalf of a nation who abandoned its trust in God. Such array of love, such zeal for the Creator! Nothing could separate them from the love of God.
And yet, ‘God’s love for the biggest sinner is much greater’.
These tender words should fill our souls with humility and consolation, and above all, protect it from despair.
No matter what we have done in the past, despite our sense of unworthiness and sinfulness, God is our loving Father. If we still doubt then let us hear the Psalmist David who after committing serious transgressions was able to say from his heart: ‘He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor punish us according to our iniquities…The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love… As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him…The steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting on those who fear him…to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments’ (Psalm 103). If we pay careful attention, revealed in these words is the key to acquiring the understanding of the wonderous, dependable and pure love of God. If we missed it, Christ Himself came to proclaim it openly:
“He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him” (John 14:21).
To the one who labour’s spiritually to keep the commandments of God - despite the assaults of the world, the flesh and the devil - to this soul God has promised to unite Himself. This is our dependable pathway, and many are the sinners who walked it and departed this world are Saints.
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