10 Sept 2026, 06:11 UTC9 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @hieromonksavvasPhoto
Saint Silouan the Athonite says :
“You must bind the passions within yourself so that they do not rule over you; you must restrain yourself so that you do not harm your neighbour... Usually people seek freedom in order to do whatever they want. But this is not freedom; rather, it is the domination of sin over you.
The freedom to sin—to fornicate, to be uncontrolled, to get drunk, to bear grudges, to extort, to murd…
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9 Sept 2026, 22:14 UTC16 viewsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102546
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/09
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/september
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4 Sept 2026, 17:16 UTC38 viewsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102490
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/04
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/september
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3 Sept 2026, 17:35 UTC34 views2 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @OrthodoxSpirituality555
A man becomes entirely human when he comes to self-awareness and independence of mind, when he becomes the complete master and commander of his own ideas and deeds and holds certain ideas not because others have given these to him, but because he himself finds them to be true. A man, when he becomes a Christian, still remains a man, and therefore in his Christianity he must also be rational, only this rationality he …
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3 Sept 2026, 17:34 UTC38 viewsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate Venerable Theoctistus
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102478
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/03
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/september
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1 Sept 2026, 18:02 UTC49 viewsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate the Church New Year
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/501
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/01
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/september
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31 Aug 2026, 18:41 UTC47 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @OrthodoxSpirituality555
“Don't make requests about your job, about your mother, about your illness, about success. No. Ask Him to enter your heart... Call upon Him even twice a day, after a month you will be sweetened, you will seek Him ten times, then twenty times, and then you will begin to feel Him in your heart.”
+ Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra
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31 Aug 2026, 17:34 UTC48 viewsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate the Placing of the Cincture (Sash) of the Mother of God
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102442
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/08/31
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/august
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29 Aug 2026, 19:20 UTC56 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate the Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102419
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/08/29
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/august
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29 Aug 2026, 02:32 UTC54 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate Venerable Moses the Ethiopian of Scete
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102414
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/08/28
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/august
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27 Aug 2026, 08:42 UTC56 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthodoxchurchamerica
Today we commemorate Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and 23 companions, of Nicomedia
Read the account: https://www.oca.org/saints/id/lives/102398
More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/08/26
Music downloads: https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/august
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26 Aug 2026, 18:57 UTC67 views1 reactionsread 10 September 2026 Forwarded from @orthocatacombPhoto
"The ideal of Orthodoxy is not progress but Transfiguration. The New Testament speaks of the transfiguration of human nature. Christ spoke to Nicodemus of a new birth. According to the words of the Apostle Paul, whoever is in Christ is a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17).
Human beings are to bear the image of the heavenly Adam (1 Cor. 15:49).
From glory to glory they are being transfigured by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor…
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