The Great Fast

Hipsterdox.

[thegreatfast]

Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.

+St John the Baptist

[biblicalle]

Art of  Mother Mary and baby Jesus from:

India, Iran, Indonesia

Ethiopia, Peru, Korea,

Russia, Turkey, Greece

[uncreatedlight]

☦️ Lamentations before the Holy Sepulcher ☦️

When he saw that the sun had hidden its rays and that the curtain of the temple was torn at the death of the Savior, Joseph went to Pilate, pleaded with him, and cried aloud:

Give me that Stranger, Who since His youth had wondered as a stranger.

Give me that Stranger, murdered in hatred by His own people as a stranger. Give me that Stranger, at Whom I wonder, seeing Him as a guest of death.

Give me that Stranger, Who knows how to take in the poor and the strangers.

Give me that Stranger, estranged from the world in envy by the Jews.

Give me that Stranger, that I may bury Him in a tomb, Who being a stranger has no place to lay His head.

Give me that Stranger whom His mother saw hanging on the Cross and cried: My Child, my bowels are wounded, and my own heart is pierced, as I see Thee dead, yet trusting in Thy Resurrection, I magnify Thee.

In such words, the honorable Joseph pleaded with Pilate. He took the Savior’s body, and in awe, wrapped it in linen and ointment. In a tomb he placed Thee, O Giver of eternal life and the great mercy.

(The Matins Service of Great Saturday - The Lamentations)

[thegreatfast]

[orthodoxgladness]

Entering the Great Lent! Let us leave the works of darkness and put on the weapon of light!

[whattheknit]

When you get a cookbook from the Yiayias at the orthodox church 😂😂😂

[by-grace-of-god]

Cathedral Of Monreale, Sicily (+) (+) (+) 

[getweddingphotography]

Georgian Wedding

[thegreatfast]

Today Baby Shark and I went through her old toys and packed up what wasn’t being used anymore. My idea amongst the carnage of 37 stuffed animals and trucks finding new homes is an age appropriate understanding of giving.

[thehomelessmonk]

Great quarter. Service with the reading of the 12 Gospels of the Holy Passions of our Lord Jesus Christ. April 28, 2016  (computer translated)

Великий четверток. Служба с чтением 12-ти Евангелий Святых Страстей Господа нашего Иисуса Христа. 28 апреля 2016год.

#Repost @d_i_v_e_e_v_o_monastyr ・・・

by @garri200545 

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[seekerofmercy-deactivated201712]

“The tree of life is the love of God from which Adam fell away. Thereafter he met with joy no longer, but toiled and wearied himself in the land of thorns.  Until we find love, our labour is in that land of thorns; amidst thorns we both sow and reap, even if our seed is the seed of righteousness.  We are pricked all the time, and however much we render ourselves righteous, we live by the sweat of our brow.  But once we have found love, we partake of the heavenly bread. … The person who has found love eats Christ at all times.  Whoever eats this bread, He says, shall never taste death.

Love is the kingdom which the Lord mystically promised to the disciples, when He said that they would eat in His kingdom: “You shall eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.” (Luke 22:30)  What should they eat and drink, if not love?  When we have reached love, we have reached God and our journey is complete.  May God makes us worthy to fear and love Him.”

-Saint Symeon the New Theologian

[thehomelessmonk]

Egypt’s Christian minority in somber mood for Easter holiday

By Osama Naguib

| ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

Members of Egypt’s Christian minority flocked to traditional services this Easter weekend in somber mood following attacks last Sunday that killed 45 people, and security was especially tight at the two churches hit by the bombers.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Palm Sunday targeting Egypt’s nearly 2,000-year-old Coptic Christian community and has warned of more attacks to come. The militants are waging an insurgency against security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, worshippers passed through a metal detector at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral, historic seat of the Coptic Pope and one of the two sites attacked last Sunday.

Rafiq Bishry, head of the church’s organizational committee, said he was surprised that so many people had come to the services that mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ despite the increased security risks.

“This is a clear message to the whole world that we are not afraid,” he told Reuters Television.

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[canonizedandotherwise]

He is Risen, indeed!  Alleluia, Alleluia!!!

[theorthodoxbritreturns]

“All that Satan had accumulated over thousands of years, on the Cross, Christ caused him to lose, when He redeemed people from their sins. Thus Satan fears the cross which reminds him of his defeat, and hence the sign of the cross has authority over demons”

HH Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

[stkatherine]

You cannot be too gentle, too kind.

St Seraphim of Sarov (via stkatherine)

[stkatherine]

Do not choose negative methods to correct yourselves. There is no need to fear the devil, hell or anything else. These things provoke a negative reaction…The object is to live, to study, to pray and to advance in love

Porphyrios (via stkatherine)

[hieromonkcharbel-deactivated202]

“Never has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized peoples — now has its platform and its own ‘teacher.’" + Hieromonk Seraphim Rose (1934-1982)