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05/04/2024

It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved.

To look upon another, his weaknesses, sins, faults & defects is to look upon one who is suffering.

He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you suffer.

+ St Tikhon of Zadonsk

22/03/2024

“It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity.

These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by “surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life.”

St. John of Kronstadt

And this is confirmed by many generations of faithful experience.

It is time of Great Lent now. It is not too late to join the Church in abiding it with God’s help.

21/03/2024

🌹TODAY, THE 21ST MARCH, IN SOME COUNTRIES AND REGIONS IS THE MOTHER’S DAY

SO WE SAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR HOLY THEOTOKOS

MAY PEACE BE UPON ALL OF THE EARTH 🌹

21/03/2024

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

To The Trinity: I sing of Thee as one in three Persons, O God of all, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Theotokion: Spotless Mother of God, only all-hymned Virgin, pray intensely that we may be saved.

21/03/2024

The tears of the harlot, O merciful Lord, I too offer to Thee. Be merciful to me, O Savior, in Thy compassion.

20/11/2022

The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9

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01/10/2022

The BIBLE puts it this way:

"And this is the condemnation,
That the light has come into the world,
And men loved darkness rather than LIGHT,
Because their deeds were evil.
For everyone practicing evil hates the light,
And does-not come to the light,
Lest his deeds should be exposed. "

(John 3:19-20)

Rememeber my beloved,
Know your faith!
Live your faith!
And teach your faith!

To God be all glory now and forever unto the ages of all ages.

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26/09/2022

Who Created God?

By Father Gabriel Wissa

In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit. One God, Amen!

'Who Created God?'
This is perhaps one of the most popular questions we here nowadays.
But thinking about this question is actually the question of time.
And it implies that God is inside of time.
Furthermore, if we ask this question,
We have to also ask,
'Who created the person that created God?' and so on and so forth.

However, the question by itself is a fallacy meaning that it's built on a false assumption that God is inside of time.
At least that's not the God we worship in a Christian faith.

Let me put it this way,
If I, per se, create a table or a chair, am I inside that table or chair?
The answer is plain No.
So, we believe that God created this plane of time that we live in.
That's why we have past, present and future.
But for God is above this timeline and not merely affected by it,
God does not grow older.
He has the same yesterday, today and forever.
Our God is unchangeable because he is above time.
He is the Alpha and the Omega.
He is everlasting.
He is the beginning and the end,
that's why St. John in his gospel says the following:
"1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 all things were made through Him
and without Him nothing was made that was made."
John 1:1-3 (NKJV)

Here 'the beginning' means even before time existed.

So, what brings people to ask this question?
Logically, in our reality, we're born at a point and grow up older and we know of that someday we'll die.
We take this observation and try to apply it to our God.
But it doesn't work that way.

Let it sink in that God is a Creator and we are His creations when it comes to our relationship with God.
Our characteristics' as a being are very different.
So we can not take the behavours or characters of humanity and apply it to God.

24/09/2022

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Let us have in mind the encouragement of St. John Climacus who in his book the ladder of divine ascent exerts all to push forward, to not despair and he says,
"Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb.
Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God,
Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer,' Who sets us in the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road."
[St John Climacus - The Ladder of Divine Ascent]

Rememeber my beloved,
Know your faith!
Live your faith!
And teach your faith!

To God be all glory now and forever unto the ages of all ages.

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24/09/2022

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My beloved, notice how the Lord was revealed to Elijah only in the still small voice.
Scripture says that the Lord is found in the Still Small Voice.
This is the same Elijah, who just in the previous chapter, we read about the great victory God grants him when he single handedly defeated hundreds upon hundreds of the pagan priests and prophets on mount Carmel.
God hids his request and sends down fire infront of eveyone to consume his sacrifice and declare himself God over all people.
How could Elijah forget God's work with him so quickly?
As soon as Jezebel sends to him and says that she's seeking to kill him, as he was the cause of the death of all the false prophets, Elijah goes into despair.
But God who's found in that still small voice saves Elijah's life. He shows him his plan and that he continues to work with him and all of us as well.

How quickly do we forget God's great and mighty hand in our lives.
How He has saved us in the past, has granted us mecy and pulled us out of dark pits.
In our own lives, how quickly we despair and question his presence.
We too like Elijah, we have to calm our hearts, silence the storm within us and seek that small voice.
It is that voice that will direct us and give us peace.

No one ought to claim that this is an easy task. We can only claim that it's always worth the effort!

And so my beloved, we conclude by saying that often the question of, 'Where is God?' is not the right question.
Rather, let us ask,
"What now, Lord?
Where do you wish to lead me?
What am I to learn from this?"
And while it takes faith and strength to ask such questions, the reward of true and personal relationship with God is worth the effort.

24/09/2022

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In regard to the issue of feeling abandoned

We are reminded of one of the great saints of the Old Testament who felt this very strongly during a diffcult time of his own life.

The great prophet Elijah, he once believed that he was the last of God's prophets to walk the earth.
He was tired of fighting, so when faced with the fact that the evil queen Jezebel were to end his life, he cried out to God.
Even to the point of wishing death upon himself.

Scripture actually says,
"And he prayed that he might die, and said, 'It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!'" (1 Kings 19:4)

One can only imagine the anguish and the anxiety he must have felt as he lied there underneath the broom tree thinking that life is no longer worth living.
But indeed the Lord was never hidden away from him. On the contrary, God was so much closer to him than he may have thought.
Let's read together the passage that follows these very events,
"Then the Lord God said, "Go out, stand on the mountain before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave.
Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
And he said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down You altars and killed Your prophets with the sword.
I alone am left; and they seek to take my life." Then the Lord said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus"..."
1 Kings 19:11-15

24/09/2022

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#5. Finally, We do not believe that God is ever absent.

One of the most ancient and beautiful prayers that our church teaches us is directly related to the Holy Spirit.
And it says, "O Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, Who is present in all places and fills all, the Treasury of good things and the Life-Giver"
Notice the words.. 'is present in all places and fills all'

He's truly Omnipresent.

We either believe this to be true or we do-not.
We can-not as an Orthodox Christian believe the truth that is found in this prayer while at the same time accuse God of being absent in our lives.
He's very much present indeed. Now it's not because we don't hear the voice of God and it means that He has abandoned me.
On the contrary, all too often, God's silence is an invitation to persevere to push through my fears and anxieties.
To pursue Him and chase Him into the deep for the sake of a profound relationship with Him.