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21 Nov, 16:00

St. Maximos the Confessor explains the frequent question about praying with other denominations, etc.:

“I write these things not wishing to cause distress to the heretics or to rejoice in their ill-treatment — God forbid; but, rather, rejoicing and being gladdened at their return. For what is more pleasing to the Faithful than to see the scattered children of God gathered again as one? Neither do I exhort you to place harshness above the love of men. May I not be so mad!
⚡️ I beseech you to do and to carry out good to all men with care and assiduity, becoming all things to all men, as the need of each is shown to you; I want and pray you to be wholly harsh and implacable with the heretics only in regard to cooperating with them or in any way whatever supporting their deranged belief. For I reckon it hatred towards man and a departure from Divine love to lend support to error, so that those previously seized by it might be even more greatly corrupted.”

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21 Nov, 14:01

Many faithful sacrificed their lives leaving us a great example of faith. When we undergo any kind of disrespect or difficulties we should remember that it meant to be. World will never full accept Christ and His disciples.
“When you suffer some dishonor from men, recognize at once the glory that will be given you by God. Then you will not be saddened or upset by the dishonor; and when you receive the glory you will remain steadfast and innocent.”
- St. Mark the Ascetic

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21 Nov, 12:16

☦️🙏 The prayer rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov is tremendously beneficial.
https://stjohndc.org/en/orthodoxy-foundation/lessons/prayer-rule-st-seraphim-sarov

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21 Nov, 11:18

☦️🌟 This inscription (Megiddo, Israel), about 1800 years old, says that Jesus Christ is God.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner

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21 Nov, 11:00

“All the teachers of the Church, all the Councils, and all the Divine Scriptures, exhort us to flee those who uphold other doctrines and to separate from communion with them.”
— St. Mark of Ephesus, Confession of Faith
Our responsibility is to keep sound teaching that was handed over to us. With faith and love, as Apostle Paul writes.

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21 Nov, 09:02

“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.”
- St. Maximos the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love
This is what we should strive for in our spiritual everyday life.

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21 Nov, 04:24

🌟🔥 Celebration of holy Archangel Michael and the Heavenly Hosts is fulfilled today, and the date is deeply symbolical. The 9th month (according to the ancient tradition, counted from March) and day 8. The 9 stands for the 9 ranks of Angels. The 8th day symbolizes the future age, the Kingdom of God.
Holy Archangel Michael with all the Heavenly Hosts, pray for us!

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20 Nov, 22:01

☦️🕯️Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled, and my soul is troubled greatly; but Thou, O Lord, how long?
Turn to me again, O Lord, deliver my soul; save me for Thy mercy's sake.🕯️☦️

♰ Psalm 6 ♰

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20 Nov, 20:57

Rachmaninoff: The All-Night Vigil

No. 3, “Blessed Is the Man,” presents Psalm verses interspersed with triple “alleluias,” which increase in fullness and range as the movement progresses.

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20 Nov, 20:52

Rachmaninoff: The All-Night Vigil

No. 2, “Bless the Lord, O My Soul,” features a pure, melodic chant, alternating between the alto soloist and the chorus. Rachmaninoff uses the device of humming—not a part of the Orthodox musical tradition—to create additional texture and to give continuity to the sound.

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20 Nov, 20:35

Rachmaninoff: The All-Night Vigil

The choir opens with the invitation to prayer, No. 1, “Come, Let Us Worship.”

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20 Nov, 20:03

The “Our Father” prayer is of special significance, because Jesus Christ Himself gave it to us. It begins with the words: “Our Father, Who art in the heavens.” This prayer is comprehensive in character: in it is concentrated, as it were, everything that man needs both for earthly life and for the salvation of his soul. The Lord gave it to us so that we would know what we should pray for and what to ask of God.

When we pronounce “Our Father,” this means that we are not praying in isolation, as individuals, each one of which has his own Father, but as members of a single human family, a single Church, a single Body of Christ. In other words, by calling God our Father, we thereby imply that all other people are our brethren. Moreover, when Christ teaches us in prayer to turn to God as “Our Father,” He places Himself as it were on the same level with us. St. Symeon the New Theologian said that through faith in Christ we become Christ’s brethren, because we share with Him a common Father: our Heavenly Father.
As for the words, “Who art in the heavens,” they do not indicate the physical heavens, but that God lives in a completely different dimension than us, that He is absolutely transcended to us. But through prayer, through the Church, we have the opportunity to join in this other world.

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20 Nov, 19:37

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Because the church has no analogues, in preceding, contemporary, or later architecture of Rus' and Byzantine cultural tradition in general, the sources that inspired Barma and Postnik are disputed. Eugene Viollet-le-Duc rejected European roots for the cathedral; according to him, its corbel arches were Byzantine, and ultimately Asian. A modern "Asian" hypothesis considers the cathedral a recreation of Qolsharif Mosque, which was destroyed by Russian troops after the siege of Kazan.
Nineteenth-century Russian writers, starting with Ivan Zabelin, emphasized the influence of the vernacular wooden churches of the Russian North; their motifs made their ways into masonry, particularly the votive churches that did not need to house substantial congregations. David Watkin also wrote of a blend of Russian and Byzantine roots, calling the cathedral "the climax" of Russian vernacular wooden architecture.

The church acquired its present-day vivid colors in several stages from the 1680s to 1848. Russian attitude towards color in the 17th century changed in favor of bright colors; icon and mural art experienced an explosive growth in the number of available paints, dyes and their combinations. The original color scheme, missing these innovations, was far less challenging. It followed the depiction of the Heavenly City in the Book of Revelation:
"And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold."
The 25 seats from the biblical reference are alluded to in the building's structure, with the addition of eight small onion domes around the central tent, four around the western side church and four elsewhere. This arrangement survived through most of the 17th century. The walls of the church mixed bare red brickwork or painted imitation of bricks with white ornaments, in roughly equal proportion. The domes, covered with tin, were uniformly gilded, creating an overall bright but fairly traditional combination of white, red and golden colors. Moderate use of green and blue ceramic inserts provided a touch of rainbow as prescribed by the Bible.

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