[gloriaphoto]

Cloistered convent, Madrid 2006

© Gloria Rodríguez

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God.

Fr. Arsenie Boca

[christsthorns]

It’s been a good weekend. I had brunch with my church friends.

[honeyworships]

I love my orthodox brothers and sisters in Christ

[s-o-l-a-c-e]

““Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’… is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.””

— ― Flannery O’Connor (via contrariansoul)

[furordinaricvs]

Cat resting on a cross of Orthodox church in Perast, Montenegro.

[furordinaricvs]

"I am the true vine."

Depictions of Christ the True Vine from Romanian wooden churches in Bogdan Voda and Calinesti Caeni, Maramures county.

[christsthorns]

I just finished Genesis! Onto Exodus…

[religiousextremist]

“The beauty of woman is the greatest snare. Or rather, not the beauty of woman, but unchastened gazing! For we should not accuse the objects, but ourselves, and our own carelessness. Nor should we say, Let there be no women, but Let there be no adulteries. We should not say, Let there be no beauty, but Let there be no fornication. We should not say, Let there be no belly, but let there be no gluttony; for the belly makes not the gluttony, but our negligence. We should not say, that it is because of eating and drinking that all these evils exist; for it is not because of this, but because of our carelessness and insatiableness. Thus the devil neither ate nor drank, and yet he fell! Paul ate and drank, and ascended up to heaven!”

☦︎ St. John Chrysostom

art: Taking the Veil by Mikhail Nesterov— this is a depiction of the Orthodox ceremony in which a woman is tonsured as a nun; taking on the angelic habit, the veil of monasticism.

[wisdom-hunter]

[belllbear]

[christsthorns]

Things I need to ask the Lord for help with:

• being in the moment

• taking more opportunities to help

• following a schedule

• holding my tongue

• patience & understanding

[christsthorns]

Trying to eat more modestly for Christ.

[imachildofgod]

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

John 14:27 (ESV)

[orthodoxadventure]

Facing winter at Pasărea Monastery, January 16, 2026. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene

[orthodoxadventure]

Sister Agape and Sister Sophia, the newly tonsured nuns in the Patriarchate of Antioch. [source]

[orthodoxadventure]

Икона Второе пришествие Иисуса Христа // Icon of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ