[orthodoxadventure]

In Scripture, incense is a symbol of prayer: "Let my prayer arise in your sight as incense" (Ps. 140:2 [141:2], VP). "And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel" (Rev. 8:4, ESV). But the act of censing is also a sign of veneration: "Everywhere a sacrifice of incense is offered to my name" (Mal. 1:11, VP). At the Divine Liturgy, the clergy cense the Holy Gifts, the icons, and also the people. This illustrates the profound respect the Orthodox Church has for the human person, made in the Image of God. The greatest icon is the human being. - Journey to the Kingdom: An Insider's Look at the Liturgy and Beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Father Vassilios Papavassiliou

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[descensos]

Sensitive people must be very careful of self-accusation, because the devil tries to convert it into despair (through hypersensitivity). Self-accusation must always be accompanied by hope in God. When someone feels anxiety in this case, he must realize that the evil one has his tail in it.

Saint Paisios the Athonite

[forsapphics]

Black Lesbian History ✊🏿⚢🪧🗣️📢💥👩🏿‍❤️‍👩🏿

[rockergiirl]

i hate how pervasive the r-word has become again

its like the 2000s to early 2010s again where talking to anyone theres a good chance they'll casually say a slur without any thought

[rockergiirl]

and whats even more annoying now is people who'll try to weasel out of being called out on it

'oh its fine because i'm legally mentally disabled so i can say it' NOT HOW RECLAMATION WORKS

[rockergiirl]

AND SAME WITH DEGENERATE

STOP TALKING LIKE A FUCKING NAZI

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

spoiler alert: you’re going to get through this, look back, and understand why some things went the way they did

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[punkedupfae]

Alright ive seen enough

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

[sceptixfakemon]

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

[sceptixfakemon]

im never leaving this hellsite

[sceptixfakemon]

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

[sceptixfakemon]

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

[dragongirlbunny]

the ruler is hosting festivities in the capital while the nation collapses, and heretics have caused a schism in the catholic church. i love living in the middle ages.

[dragongirlbunny]

we even have a The Plague

[viralfrog]

[orthodoxadventure]

O Lord, by Thy Holy Spirit enlighten Thy people that all may know Thy love.

Saint Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony of Essex

[hail-holy-queen]

Sometimes it's very funny how catholics, or even eastern orthodox believers of all people fall for the American evangelical propaganda of a tradwife. An idea of a docile housewife who only does domestic work and raises children that would make the typical medieval, devout peasant faint.

How could people who have the tradition of "Ora et Labora" ever think this is what a woman is supposed to do. How can European catholics and orthodox, whose ideal woman for centuries was the strong peasant woman, doing arduous and tough work, and also the head of the family since she takes care of most things in the house, think a mindless housewife who dresses in (often vain) floral dresses and makes jam all day is the most virtuous woman.

How can people who have women like Zippora in the Bible, who went with Moses instead of staying at home and and even saves him from God's wrath, think a woman needs to passive all the time. The blessed Mary, Saints like St. Hildegard all exist, and yet a woman is supposed to be nothing virtuous. The 'tradwife' ideal is nothing more than a creation of the so heavily imposed American lifestyle, a reflection of a puritanical Christian culture, but it seems that the biggest contenders of it are anything but Protestant.

[toimintalaama]

Yeah this is so true. I think there's an issue with the new Orthobros and some Orthodox influencer types who are trying to bring this into Orthodoxy. As a new-ish convert who did NOT join with this stuff in mind, it kind of terrifies me.

But I try to trust in the Lord and our priests, that they are able to handle this, and guide the guys to a more healthy approach to Orthodoxy. There has actually been some young men's group in my our country's different parishes, which I believe is for this reason so that the new guys could grow into this healthy Orthodoxy

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[divorce-enjoyer]

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

[decompositie]

[ryebreadgf]

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

[ryebreadgf]

I got a message about how this is supposedly mean. I am holding your hand when I say that refusing womanhood and clinging onto girlhood will not save you from the realities of adulthood. I am not saying you are not young. 26 is incredibly young. you are free to love the concepts and media associated with girlhood but there is much to love about womanhood that you are not seeing. there is something to be said for being free of the shackles of girlhood and childhood. you are an autonomous being. you have power over your life and the paths you will take. it is easier to see the paths when you start taking yourself seriously instead of waiting for others to do so. no one is saying you have to be serious. womanhood is joy too. a different shade of yellow

[orthodoxadventure]

May God grant us the ability to correct and prepare ourselves, so that we are found ready.

The Art of Salvation by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

[yorickalas]

[max--phillips]

AND YET!

Pope Leo is letting American bishops entirely ban trans healthcare for both minors and adults in all Catholic-owned hospitals and clinics, and stop coverage for trans healthcare through Catholic-affiliated health insurance plans!!

People are having surgeries, for which they were on waitlists for years, suddenly cancelled. Hormones no longer covered, their clinicians no longer able to prescribe them. Considering in some states Catholic-owned healthcare organizations make up to a third of the market, as it were, this is a HUGE issue.

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban

Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl

This has been happening since November of last year, when this vote took place, but no one is talking about it. The rehabilitation of the image of the papacy through Pope Leo is killing me, it’s still the goddamn Catholic Church. You do not gotta hand it to them.

[entanglingbriars]

They're also denying medically necessary procedures to pregnant people and making them have unnecessary surgery for things like ectopic pregnancies in order to obey the doctrine of double effect.