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01/07/2021

Today is the feast of Saint Moses the Strong. May God grant us to live his life of repentance through his prayers and intercession amen 🙏😌

22/06/2021

A beautiful prayer for the 1st Tuesday after Pentecost 🙏🏼🔥Come, O Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit or Truth, graciously come and abide in us!

14/06/2021

Stay shining friends 🔥🙏 Happy Monday 💪

12/03/2021

8 pm tonight ! Can’t wait!

“To stand in the presence of a holy icon is to stand in the presence of the person depicted therein, and so whether we stand before a large icon encased in an elaborately decorated wooden icon stand or before a paper icon taped on the wall of our bedroom, we stand before the holy person whose countenance is painted in line and colour.”
- Presvytera Constantina Palmer

04/03/2021

You need white sheets of paper, pencils, a ruler and a compass.
”The icon is a light which illuminates and guides; and you can see it, comforting and clear, whether it is day or night.
Whether you have your eyes open or shut, you do not lose the spiritual experience and contemplation of the uncreated light. "Then night and day are one”. Nor do you ever lose
an icon; it always remains before you. Whether you are joyful or sorrowful, it fills you with a sense of consolation. Whether you live or die, its grace is there and keeps you cradled in life incorruptible; it is our life. It exists outside and above our
passions and our weaknesses and infuses us with peace, with the light of the risen Lord. - Archimandrite Vasileos 🔥🔥🔥

01/03/2021

Peace has a special Biblical connotation. It is often called the first fruit of faith. "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1). The Lord Jesus Christ is considered the "Prince of Peace". Being the truest source of peace known to man today, the Son of God, found no price great enough for peace and shed His own blood for its sake, "Having made peace through the blood of His cross" (Colossians 1:20).

Peace is considered one of God's greatest gifts to us in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and to keep Him ever present in thought, the word peace was to become the Jewish word of custom to address both a greeting and a good-bye so important was the word for God's presence in everyday life. Today, we continue to recite in the Divine Liturgy, "Peace be with all", before the Prayer of Reconciliation and following the Orthodox Creed.

The Lord Jesus Christ often spoke of perfect peace reconciling humanity with God and not being afraid. "Peace I leave you with; My peace I give to you. I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid" (John 14:27). This the Lord Jesus Christ spoke to His disciples concerning His eventual sequence of death including His Resurrection, Ascension into Heaven, and the Pentecost sending of the Holy Spirit. It further implies that peace is more than an earthly gift left behind, but a spiritual gift and an inheritance to the faithful.

This "Peace be to you" message was to fill the disciples hearts with such great peace, with such great joy, and such great comfort to go out and spread such Great News that it would continue to impact our lives some two thousand years later.

27/02/2021

Joy is listed in the Fruits of the Spirit, so what is extra or different about Joy received directly from God?

To fully appreciate it requires us to personally experience it. When we do we realise that it is an incredible gift, for it is a taster of the life to come after this one. Gods loves for us mixed with His desire to share His Kingdom with us spills over into our life on earth now. He has prepared a great place for us; He wants to share His joy and Kingdom. He wants to live with us hence He tells us He is with us everywhere we go. He not only wants to live with us, but also live in us. Thus the Holy Spirit dwells in us. No other being is that closely connected to God. So in His eagerness to see us happy and with Him in Heaven He gives us little tasters. When we get close to Him He shows us just a fraction of how much He loves us, He fills us with a heavenly peace that is a glimpse of complete heavenly peace. And He shows a little of the joy we will receive when we die.

It is an incentive to draw closer to Him to build that relationship. Otherwise God would not give it, if we did not see it and it makes us strive to please Him than He would not offer it. Hence we can read the uplifting verse in Matthew when the master says: “Well done good and faithful servant enter into the joy of the Lord”

Once experienced the joy of the Lord stays with you even if it was a one off experience the memory of it is enough to keep you feeling joyful. Hence St. John of Kronstadt can say: “Oh, what great happiness and bliss, what exaltation it is to address oneself to the Eternal Father. Always, without fail, value this joy which has been accorded to you by God's infinite grace and do not forget it during your prayers; God, the angels and God's holy men listen to you”.

22/02/2021

Christ my God, set my heart on fire with love in You, that in its flame I may love You with all my heart, with all my mind, and with all my soul and with all my strength, and my neighbor as myself, so that by keeping Your commandments I may glorify You the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Amen.

23/10/2020

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23/10/2020

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