[annodomini2007]

Someone once told me, “If Christ didn’t die and resurrect, then my life has no meaning.” Signifying Christ represents hope to humanity. Not till a year later did I understand him.

[orthodoxadventure]

God often allows us to hit rock bottom so that we will discover that He is the rock at the bottom.

Saint John of Kronstadt

[cowgirlgirl2002]

[orthodoxadventure]

The Right Hand of Saint Mary Magdalene Equal-to-the-Apostles, Holy Mount Athos.

[annodomini2007]

"Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world—everything is hidden in you."

- Hildegard of Bingen

[annodomini2007]

Do you think God created pleasure to test us? To see how far our original sin extends

[metmuseum]

Stole (Epitrachilion). 16th century. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1928 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/222177

[annodomini2007]

“Sometimes man must endure the silence of God to understand the voice of his own conscience.”

[annodomini2007]

“Is that not what God is to man?”

“Imperative in word. Immense in presence. Yet, before His gaze… the soul trembles.”

[annodomini2007]

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls.

[seraphim-eternal]

Now I have known in part; then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:12

[bovarissmo]

traces of faith

[seraphim-eternal]

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:11

[seraphim-eternal]

For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.

Genesis 33:10

[annodomini2007]

When Moses was sent, he purified and destroyed evil. Yet, it was still inhabited in men’s hearts from then on. When Christ came and died and resurrected, he sought to unblind those who relished in evil. Yet, neither did that approach work. When will man be saved? Can man be saved?

[annodomini2007]

By connecting in spirituality, in merging in religion, we know our most organic selves.

To be human is to be in misery, which is why we categorize ‘divinity’ as inhuman, who we seek to be as beings: eternally able to be in salvation partly on earth and to understand the fundamental blessing to phenomenally atone by being in a natural despairing state as human.

[annodomini2007]

We grieve the death of our childhoods as Mary had to grieve her son’s death. Those moments of sunshine laced with inevitable emptiness overtime; rotting and buried in the soil. Yet when we remember, when we experience memorable sensations, we can sense the light which was once there. With the same anguish and ruefulness of our emotions, Mary once felt. Tears of the mother are tears of children long lost to time.

The troubled Abram becomes the sorrowful Mary. Women have always suffered what men had feared.