11 Aug 2026, 20:50 UTC19 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"O wretched Severus, why comminglest thou the natures of Christ and introducest confusion and commixture into them, thus adding to the Godhead, which is devoid of passion, the suffering on the Cross and the burial of the only-begotten Word of God?Wherefore, we abominate thy great blasphemy."
— Matins for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils - Ode IX - Canon II
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11 Aug 2026, 18:55 UTC2 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"A blameworthy passion is a movement of the soul contrary to nature"
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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11 Aug 2026, 00:01 UTC3 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"The soul is pure when it has been freed from the passions and rejoices unceasingly in divine love."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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8 Aug 2026, 15:59 UTC8 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"The mind is pure when it is removed from ignorance and illuminated by divine light."
— Saint Maximus the Confessord
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7 Aug 2026, 11:01 UTC9 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"As the light of the sun attracts the healthy eye, so does the knowledge of God draw the pure mind to itself naturally through love."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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29 May 2026, 12:12 UTC33 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"As the memory of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not bring about the illumination of knowledge in the soul."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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29 May 2026, 03:03 UTC20 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"Whenever you are suffering intensely from insult or disgrace, realize that this can be of great benefit to you, for disgrace is God's way of driving vainglory out of you."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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27 May 2026, 20:48 UTC20 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"When you are insulted by someone or offended in any matter, then beware of angry thoughts, lest by distress they sever you from charity and place you in the region of hatred."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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26 May 2026, 17:50 UTC34 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"The one who has acquired divine love in himself does not grow weary of closely following after the Lord his God, as the divine Jeremiah' says; rather he endures nobly every reproachful hardship and outrage without thinking any evil of anyone."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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26 May 2026, 17:47 UTC16 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"The one who has genuinely renounced worldly matters and serves his neighbor without pretense through love soon frees himself of all passion and is rendered a sharer of divine love and knowledge."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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26 May 2026, 17:46 UTC12 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"The disposition of love is made manifest not only in the sharing of money but much more in sharing the word of God and physical service."
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
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26 May 2026, 17:44 UTC11 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
"Just as God who is by nature good and free of passion loves all in an equal way as his creatures but glorifies the virtuous man for having become his friend through his intention and has mercy on the wicked out of his goodness and converts him by chastening him in this life, so also does the one who is good and without passion through his intention love equally all men—the virtuous because of his nature and good wil…
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