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Reposting this person's post cuz it's just facts.

[cvbarroso]

"Cuanto más le miremos, más le amaremos" -S. Vicente de Paúl-

"The more we look at him, the more we will love him" -S. Vincent de Paul-

[jameslmartello]

[thecatholicgirl]

“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties”

— CS Lewis (via truthgodshowedme)

[orthodoxadventure]

"The beginning of salvation is to condemn oneself" (Evagius)

Repentance marks the starting point of our journey. The Greek term metanoia, signifies primarily 'a change of mind'. Correctly understood, repentance is not a negative but positive. It means, not self-pity or remorse, but conversion, the re-centering of our whole life upon the Trinity. It is to look, not backward with regret, but forward with hope -- not downwards at our own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love. It is to see, not what we have failed to be, but what by divine grace we can now become; and it is to act upon what we see. To repent is to open our eyes to the light. In this sense, repentance is not just a single act, an initial step, but a continuing state, an attitude of heart and will that needs to be ceaselessly renewed up to the end of life. In the words of St Isaias of Sketis, 'God requires us to go on repenting until our last breath'.

-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

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“When God, who is absolute fullness, brought creatures into existence, it was not done to fulfill any need but so that his creatures should be happy to share his likeness, and so that he himself might rejoice in the joy of his creatures as they draw inexhaustibly upon the Inexhaustible.”— St. Maximus the Confessor

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Size comparison between the sun and all the planets of our solar system

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[voiceforjesus]

[orthodoxadventure]

Christ our God has loved His own to the uttermost. Because of love He created the world, because of love He was born into this world as a man, because of love He took up our broken humanity into Himself and made it His own. Because of love He identified Himself with all our distress. Because of love He offered Himself as a sacrifice, choosing at Gethsemane to go voluntarily to His Passion: 'I lay down my life for my sheep... No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself' (John 10:15, 18). It was willing love, not exterior compulsion, that brought Jesus to His death. At His Agony in the garden and at His Crucifixion the forces of darkness assail Him with all their violence, but they cannot change His compassion into hatred; they cannot prevent His love from continuing to be itself. His love is tested to the furthest point, but it is not overwhelmed. 'The light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has not swallowed it up' (John 1:5). To Christ's victory upon the Cross we may apply the words spoken by a Russian priest on his release from prison camp: 'Suffering has destroyed all things. One thing alone has stood firm -- it is love.'

-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

[deaconfrank]

Good Shepherd and His lost sheep

[greater-than-the-sword]

Why did Jesus put mud in that guy's eyes?

You may wonder why Jesus would heal this particular man using dirt and spit, when as God he can clearly do miracles without the aid of any substance, and all his other recorded miracles were done without this process.

However, if you know the Bible it is possible to work out what this symbolises. This was a man born blind. When Jesus uses dirt here, he is making a symbolic reference to the creation of man out of dirt in the Garden of Eden. Jesus here proclaims himself as Yahweh, the God who made man out of dirt, by creating for a man this new part of his body which he never before had - unlike other healing miracles in which that person was somehow sickened, this one clearly symbolizes not mere restoration but a totally new creation. Therefore taking the water from his own body and the earth out of which man was originally made, Jesus shows himself to be the Creator by creating in the way that only God can, to give a man the new ability to see which he never before had, which symbolizes the creation of the new man at the rebirth of the believer, which is a work of God.

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"The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love." - #SaintThomasAquinas #ThirdSundayofLent

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