Sts. Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Christian Mission

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Christian Mission Sts. Cyril&Methodius OCM, Located in Sierra Vista, AZ
Fr.Daniil Millwood
Phone: 425-697-0243

11/19/2024

“Never forget that the Son of God, for thirty years of His earthly life, was a carpenter. He had calloused hands and was not ashamed to extend His hand to receive payment for the plows and yokes He made, as was said in the time of Saint Justin the Philosopher and Martyr.

The highly intellectual Apostle Paul was not ashamed, after preaching during the day, to make bags, tents, and rugs from goat hair at night, as was customary in the East at that time. Both Saint Basil the Great and Saint John the Theologian, along with all the other saints, worked. Therefore, we too must not be ashamed or afraid of any work; we should only be ashamed and afraid of sin.

By doing so, through our faith and life in faith, we will fulfill the meaning and purpose of our existence in this world—that is, to attain bliss in our true heavenly homeland, in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

-Patriarch Paul of Serbia

11/06/2024

I am so sad my beloved Arizona chose to murder innocent BABY HUMANS. GOD remembers.☦️

10/24/2024

For All Jews to Ponder:

In the city of Beirut, there was a Christian who lived in a house near the synagogue of the Jews. This man had an icon, upon which was depicted the image of our Lord Jesus Christ according to His human nature. After some time he bought another house, and moved from the first house to the second, but by God's providence the icon of the Lord remained where he had lived before. Following this a Jew took up residence in the house where the icon of the Lord was, but he could not see the Lord's icon standing there.

Once, the Jew invited a friend of his to dinner. As he sat at the table, the friend, who was also a jew, saw the icon of the Lord standing against the wall and asked his host, "How is it that you, who are a Jew, have an icon in your house?"

His host began to curse and to swear, saying that until that time he had not noticed the icon. The other Jew departed, and he denounced his friend to the Jewish priest's, saying, "He, being a Jew, has in his house an icon of Jesus of Nazareth."

Then all the Jews were filled with anger, but they could do nothing, for it was evening. The next day, a multitude of Jews, chief priests and elders, gathered together, and they went to the house where the icon of the Lord was. They burst into the house, found the icon of the Lord, carried it off, and placed it in their synagogue; and they said, "Let us do to this icon what our fathers did to Him who is depicted on it." They began to spit on the icon and strike from every side the face of Jesus Christ depicted on it.

Then the Jews said, "We have heard that our fathers nailed the Nazarene to a tree. Let us do the same to this icon!"

They took nails and hammered them through the hands and feet on the image, and they put a sponge filled with gall and vinegar upon a Reed and placed it against the lips of the Lord on the icon. Finally, they brought a spear and had one of their number pierce the side of the Lord in the image, and when the man thrust the spear into the icon, immediately there came out blood and water. Great fear fell upon all the Jews who beheld this most glorious marvel, and they filled a vessel with the blood and water which had flowed forth. They considered the matter among themselves, saying, "Let us bring here the blind, the lame, and the demonized and wash them in this blood, and if they are healed, we shall all believe in the Crucified One"; for they were stricken with fear because of that marvel.

A man who had been lame since birth was brought, and as soon as he was washed in the blood which gushed from the icon of Christ, he leapt up and was made whole. Then blind men were brought, who, when they were washed, received sight, and a multitude of the possessed were cleansed by that blood. Word of this spread through the city, and all came to behold these ineffable miracles, bringing their sick, paralytic, lepers, and withered and lame; and all were healed. Then the Jews believed in our Lord Jesus Christ, and they fell down before the icon of the Lord, crying out tearfully: "Glory to Thee, O Christ, the Son of God, Who Workest such wonders! Glory to Thee, O Christ, Whom our fathers did crucify, but in Whom we believe! Accept us who fall down before Thee, O Master!"

All the Jews in that city, men, women, and children alike, went to the Bishop and fervently besought him to grant them Holy Baptism. They showed him the icon of the Lord from which blood and water had flowed forth, and they told the Bishop of all that they had done to mock the icon. When the Bishop saw that they were truly repentant, he received them joyfully, and for many days instructed them in the Holy faith. Then he Baptized them, together with their wives and children, and made of their synagogue a church dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ. There was a great joy in that city not only because of the healing of the infirm but also because of the Baptism of the unbelieving Jews, which came to pass because of the miracles worked through the icon of the Lord.

Thus let us all venerate the sacred icons with faith and love and especially revere and glorify the image of our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom the divine Hypostasis assumed the form of man. To Him, together with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, worship is due from all unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Volumn II: October 11
The Lives of the Saints
ISBN: 0-9635183-8-0

10/01/2024

The United Nation's has a proposed bill waiting to be signed by President Biden requiring
ALL COUNTRIES
to legalize abortions for any reason and for up until birth.
Welcome the one world government. I bet Russia doesn't comply.
Per: Justin Haskins, Heartland Institute

09/27/2024

On October 7th, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews will hold a fund raiser and remembrance of the Hamas attack. Please DO NOT SUPPORT this group. What pastors , government, and news corporations are failing to tell the public is in addition to Muslims, Palestinian Christians are being tortured and executed by the Israeli police and military. I personally know Palestinian Christians that have fled this area and worshipped with them.

Palestinian Christians were the first people to live in this area when Christianity developed. Christians are the New Israel and the New Chosen People according to the Bible. If you aren't a Christian than none of this matters.

Since before 1948 the Israeli government has forcibly taken Christian families from their homes, making them leave all of their belongings, their homes, their farms, their farm animals and be out within 48 hours. If the Christians tried to come back the Israeli government bombed the Christians villages, decimating everything.

I am not pro Hamas or Pro Israeli. I am pro PEACE and HUMAN RIGHTS; something our government has forgotten about. STOP THE WARS.
THE STONES CRY OUT!

09/23/2024

Dear brothers and sisters, In churches and monasteries, as well as in any Orthodox family, every meal is necessarily blessed with prayer and sprinkled with holy water.
Unfortunately, even in quite church-oriented families, people do not always understand why this is so essential. They consider it a relic of the past and religious fanaticism.
But today we will explain why this is so important and what terrible danger unblessed food can pose, even if it’s prepared at home.The first and perhaps most well-known reason we pray before and after meals is to thank God. The Lord gives us food and the means to purchase it. He does not allow us to starve, and although we may not know what food scarcity is like, if we simply imagine ourselves as residents of some African tribe where food is very scarce, it becomes clear why we must thank God.
Because we do not know what will happen to us tomorrow. What trials await us? There are many cases where successful, quite wealthy people end up on the streets, becoming beggars. Thus, what we have on our table is a gift from God; it is His mercy, and we must thank Him for everything He gives us and appreciate it.
The second reason we must pray is related to spiritual laws and the dangers that await us if we do not seek God’s help and protection. In short, the Lord created the entire world. Now imagine the power of a bad, evil word.
We buy bread, dairy, and meat products and prepare meals for our loved ones, children, and guests. But can you be sure of the people who processed, cut, packaged, and arranged the meat on the store shelves? Are you sure that they bring only good and love with their words and thoughts? That they did not curse, quarrel, insult one another, or curse anyone while handling the food?
Such negative behavior and anger around your kitchen or in a cafe turn the food into poison. As the holy fathers wrote, from such food, one can even become ill. In books describing the lives of ancient monasteries, you may find stories about how even the slightest conflict among monks during meal preparation would lead the abbot to prohibit that food from being served, calling it poison and instructing them to cook again.
Just a small conflict already carries a spirit of contention. Now imagine what is happening with our food today when curses, insults, and hatred toward one’s neighbors have become the norm. Picture the terrible influence this has on the products we buy and use to cook at home.
How do we remove this influence from our food? Very simply. When we bring groceries from the store or market, be sure to cross-sprinkle them with holy water while praying in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Also, always pray before meals. In your prayer, ask the Lord to bless and cleanse the food. Furthermore, prayer helps us eat mindfully. We should not behave like animals, indiscriminately consuming everything to fill our stomachs without prayer.
We must refrain from food that is not beneficial, controlling our passionate appetites. In general, the holy fathers emphasize that food should be taken like medicine. We should not seek excessive pleasure in food, looking for exotic dishes or extraordinary ingredients, etc.
Food should be simple, healthy, and satisfying. Then we will not fall into sin by overeating or seeking out expensive restaurants to taste some exotic dish, treating food as something extraordinary or special.
In such cases, food becomes poison for both the body and the soul. It becomes an idol for us because it is no longer healthy but a sinful passion. We eat not for pleasure but to have the strength to work and live. Everything else is our passion for tasty, sweet, or exotic food—essentially, a sinful addiction.
That’s why it’s important to pray before meals, asking the Lord to guard our hearts and minds from demonic passions regarding food. At the same time, it is crucial that the prayer is conscious, not just recited like some mantra. We must understand what and who we are asking for when we pray. The Lord is alive; He sees our hearts and thoughts.
So if you truly want your food not to be poison for you and your loved ones, pray attentively and consciously, with gratitude to God and reverence. Such a prayer will cleanse your meal from demonic influence and help you relate to food properly, so as not to harm your body or soul.
This is why it is so important to do everything with prayer, including eating. This is not just a tradition or religious fanaticism but a necessity. Our grandparents always knew this, which is why they worked and ate with prayer, waking and falling asleep with prayer.
This is a spiritual law: if the Lord and His commandments are at the center of your life and daily affairs, everything will go well and for the good.
If, however, we rely on ourselves and our strength, the devil easily breaks our lives apart, destroys families, corrupts children, and leads us into sin and passions. For we cannot achieve anything worthwhile without God, and until we understand this, we will repeatedly fall and make mistakes.
This also applies to food: pray before meals, sprinkle your food with holy water, and eat with gratitude to God, and such food will never be poison for you, neither for your body nor for your soul.
Shared from Ms. Youlia

08/23/2024

The great Prophets Jeremiah & John the Baptist were "filled with the Holy Spirit, even in their mother's womb." Which is why we don't abort.

08/19/2024

May God Bless You
on the Feast of
Holy Transfiguration!

06/18/2024

Great Russian Proverb
Pray to God
But
Row to Shore!

06/11/2024

Interesting tidbit:
St. Gregory the Great, Orthodox and Roman Pope of Rome (when there was one Church) stated about the new term "Ecumenical Patriarch, 'Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the Antichrist."
Obtained from Fr. Andrew S. Damick, Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy, pg 64.

05/31/2024

"When Christ left this earth, He left the Apostles in charge of the Church. He didn't leave them with an instruction manual, a set of rules, He didn't even leave them the Scriptures, He left them with His teachings and a way of life.
The Christian faith is not a religion, it has no merely human founder and does not concoct concepts to correspond with reasonings, Christ did not establish a religion, but a Church that offers actual human participation in the Divine, a deep personal relationship with Christ, that can never be articulated or understood, like love, it can only be experienced. " Dr. Eugenia Constantinou

05/27/2024

1 Peter 4:6
Pray for those who have Died/Fallen Asleep.
Memory Eternal
Fallen Veteran!

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