☦️ HOW TO GAIN THE KINGDOM OF GOD ☦️
“If you want to serve God, prepare your heart not for food, not for drink, not for rest, not for ease, but for suffering, so that you may endure all temptations, trouble and sorrow. Prepare for severities, fasts, spiritual struggles and many afflictions, for 'by many afflictions is it appointed to us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven' (Acts 14,22); ‘The Heavenly Kingdom is taken by force, and they who use force seize it’ (Matt 11:12).
† St. Sergius of Radonezh †
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This blog loves and supports joulutorttu with jam inside and on top 🇫🇮🎅
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Reason 219: Whenever Finland achieves something, no matter how slight, we all meet in the square to party. Torilla tavataan!
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“Clad now in an embroidered purple robe dyed in thine own blood, thou dost reign with Christ, O James; for through sufferings thou didst find the well-spring of dispassion, in which thou hast been vouchsafed to delight eternally, O most blessed one.”
From ode 9 of the canon to the Great Martyr James
Composed by Joseph
The acrostic whereof is “With songs do I hymn the Persian martyr James”
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Dont ask why, just reblog and listen
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Hahahahaha man well I got one now
Prefection is fake, only a Devine creator could….
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Jonah stretched out his hands in the form of a cross within the belly of the sea monster, plainly prefiguring the redeeming Passion. Cast out from thence after three days, he foreshadowed the marvelous Resurrection of Christ our God, who was crucified in the flesh and enlightened the world by His Rising on the third day.
Ode 6 Irmos of the Canon of the Cross
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A bride and groom at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Vancouver, Canada. (Credit: Will Pursell)
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Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480
BnF, Latin 920, fol. 180r
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