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it's so weird being a spn fan who (apart from other things) thinks michel and adam are a great duo (almost like a couple) / or hating apocalypse world michel bc i just have a picture of St. Archangel Michael on the wall. I have a picture of Virgin Mary with baby Jesus while im saying spn Mary is a terrible parent
Is there an Orthodox Christian book club on Tumblr yet? If not, please reply if you’d like to start one!
Reply with your favorite Orthodox book / what you’re currently reading / what you’re planning on reading next!
My current favorite Orthodox book is My Elder Joseph the Hesychast. I’m currently reading St. Paisios the Athonite’s biography but I plan on reading St. Silouan the Athonite’s book next!
St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, San Gabriel, California
“If a person wants to get an idea about the pyramids of Egypt, he must either trust those who have been in immediate proximity to the pyramids, or he must get next to them himself. There is no third option.
In the same way, a person can get an impression of God: he must either trust those who have stood and stand in proximity to God, or he must take pains to come into such proximity himself.”
+ St. Nikolai Velimirovich
"We should take heed with ourselves so as not to trick ourselves into thinking we are pursuing the straight and narrow path when in truth we are following the way which is wide and broad. The following will demonstrate the meaning of the narrow path: ... the cleansing drink of dishonour, insults, condemning, derision, the deprivation of one's will, long-suffering in annoyances, unquestioning endurance of insults, disregard of sneers, and the habit when ill-treated, of enduring it hardily. Or when slandered, of not being angry. When disgraced by another, not to be upset. When reviled to be humble. Blessed are those who follow the path we have spoken of, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."
+ St. John Climacus
“An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.”
+ St. John of the Ladder
Anyone else wanna join our Panagia’s Garden Orthodox Book Club?
We are all planning for the coming Advent Fast, the 40 day fasting period in preparation for our Savior’s Nativity— Christmas!
We have a few book recommendations, and also a devotional we plan on following altogether, so it would be a great joy to have more people join our little community for our readings. Just reply/reblog this post or send a DM and I will send you a link to our server!
If you like Orthodox Christian literature, art, theology, and history, I’d like to invite you to join our Panagia’s Garden Discord book club!
It is free-for-all and our main goal is to encourage each other to pick up our books more often and share the wisdom we learn from the saints of the Orthodox Church. You needn’t be Orthodox to join, all are welcome.
Please send me a private message or reply to this post to let me know that you’re interested and I will send you the link to our server. ☦️
If we weave by day and undo at night, nothing gets woven.
If we build by day and destroy by night, nothing is ever built.
If we pray to God and do evil before Him, then nothing is woven and a house for our soul is not built.
+ St. Nikolai Velimirovich
“After sin comes shame; courage follows repentance.
Satan upsets the order; he gives courage to sin and shame to repentance.”
+ St. John Chrysostom
The righteous have no sorrows that are not turned into joy, as sinners have no joy that is not turned into sorrow.
+ St. Dmitri of Rostov
Woodcuts of Serbian monasteries on Fruška Gora mountain, Syrmia region 1858.
My whole life is a battle; between me and me, between me as I am, and me as God wants me to be.
Do good to those who wish to argue with you, and you will win the argument.
One deed of compassion will bring the madman to his senses and will pacify the embittered man more quickly than many hours of conversation.
☦︎ Saint Nikolaj Velimirovich
"The humanist is- entirely within himself, by himself, for himself, always spitefully closed in opposition to God. Here lies every humanism, every hominism. The culmination of such satanically oriented humanism is the desire to become good for the sake of evil, to become God for the sake of the devil. It proceeds from the promise of the devil to our forefathers in Paradise-that with his help, ‘they would become as gods’ (Gen. 3: 5)."
Photograph of Saint Justin Popović