By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion, You did confirm the universal Resurrection, O Christ God! Like the children with the palms of victory, we cry out to You, O Vanquisher of death: Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord! + Troparion (Tone 1) ☦️

Uncut Mountain is doing amazing work with translating patristic texts into English!

If you bear your cross with perseverance and seek comfort only from Him, then He, through His mercy, will not abandon you but will touch your heart and will impart to you the gifts of the Holy Spirit. … Then your heart will be kindled with love of God and all people. All these are gifts of the Holy Spirit. When the Lord decides to honour you with such gifts, do not consider them as rewards for your labors, and do not think that you have attained perfection. Such thoughts come from pride. The comforts and grace of the Holy Spirit are not rewards but gifts of divine mercy. ☦️ St Innocent, Enlightener of Siberia and Alaska (Reposed Mar 31, 1879),"The Way Into the Kingdom of Heaven"

“A nation is created by families, a religion, a tradition: it is made up out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children.” — Kaiser Wilhelm II

Soon to be cannonized St. Ephraim ☦️

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It is later than you think ☦️

“Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.” ☦️Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Operation Gladio

Blessed feast of the Annunciation of our Lord! ☦️ "The incarnation of Christ came about according to God's good pleasure and not merely by His permission. It did not happen on account of the fall, as though God was obliged to become man because of the fall. Rather, it was in God's original plan before the creation of the world, and the creation of the world was aimed toward this. The theological explanation is that man's salvation could not be accomplished solely by keeping God's commandments, but was to be achieved by the union of the divine and human natures in the hypostasis of the Word. Through Him humankind would be deified. ...The fall of man did not make God decide on the divine incarnation; it had been planned by God before the fall. The consequences of the fall were the Passion and Cross of Christ. Human beings could not have reached deification without the prototype of the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in Christ." —Met. Hierotheos (Vlachos) Feasts of the Mother of God (pp. 172-173)

St. Photios The Great is paramount in understanding the great schism.