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🇷🇴🙏 ROMANIA’S GREAT ORTHODOX PILGRIMAGE

Thousands of believers gathered in Iași to pray before the relics of Saint Parascheva, one of Romania’s most beloved Orthodox saints. The annual pilgrimage, held October 8–15, brings together faithful from across the country and beyond in a powerful expression of faith, prayer and tradition.

#Romania #OrthodoxChristianity #SaintParascheva #Iași #Faith #Pilgrimage

Hinduism from an Orthodox Christian Perspective | Public Lecture | Part 1 (Lecture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5m_qzKNNN4

Monk Innocent from Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery gave a lecture last year at #SaintPhotios Orthodox Theological Seminary that covered the topic of Hinduism from an #OrthodoxChristian perspective.

During his lecture, Father Innocent gives a history lesson on the origins of #Hinduism, what #Hindus believe, and why Hinduism conflicts with #OrthodoxChristianity.

How the Third Rome Idea Shaped Moscow’s Religious and Imperial Identity

📰 Original title: MOSCÚ, LA TERCERA ROMA. EL INVENTO QUE JUSTIFICA CASI TODO DESDE EL SIGLO XVI

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#history #russia #thirdrome #orthodoxchristianity

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✝️September 24 – Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos Myrtidiotissa on the island of Kythira and Commemoration of the Healing of the Paralytic✝️
#PanagiaMyrtidiotissa
#GreekOrthodox
#OrthodoxChristianity
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon

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The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross
September 14
#ExaltationOfTheCross #HolyCross #OrthodoxChristianity #JohnRoss7 #Mastodon

Amid war, Ukrainian soldiers celebrate love at ritual wedding

As twilight settled on a hillside by the river near the eastern Ukrainian front, two soldiers exchanged wedding…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #geopolitics #Khomochka #OrthodoxChristianity #Slavic
https://www.europesays.com/3228328/

https://www.europesays.com/3228328/ Amid war, Ukrainian soldiers celebrate love at ritual wedding #Conflicts #geopolitics #Khomochka #OrthodoxChristianity #Slavic

“When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.”
― Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#Bot #Quote #Inspirational #OrthodoxChristianity #Spirituality

"Throughout its illegal invasion, Russia has struck over 536 religious and cultural sites across Ukraine. Far from acting as a defender of Orthodox Christianity or a champion of peace, Putin has repeatedly ordered attacks that undermine both claims."
- EUvsDisinfo

#RussianInvasion #Putin #OrthodoxChristianity #EUvsDisinfo

Vote for Schemanun Justina!

https://easternorthodoxchristiansunite2.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/vote-for-schemanun-justina/

https://www.europesays.com/people/122114/ Adam Zivo: Putin is vandalizing Ukraine’s Christian heritage #DormitionCathedral #EasternOrthodoxChristianity #kyiv #KyivPecherskLavra #KyivanRus #moscow #MoscowPatriarchate #OrthodoxChristianity #Russia #UkrainianOrthodoxChurch #VladimirPutin

Adam Zivo: Putin is vandalizing Ukraine’s Christian heritage

On Sunday night, Russia vandalized Ukraine’s religious and cultural heritage by bombing a thousand-year-old monastery in central Kyiv. The holy…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #DormitionCathedral #easternorthodoxchristianity #Kyiv #Kyiv-PecherskLavra #KyivanRus #Moscow #MoscowPatriarchate #OrthodoxChristianity #Russia #UkrainianOrthodoxChurch #VladimirPutin
https://www.europesays.com/ukraine/7627/

Support the Holy Trinity Monastery/Seminary in Jordanville, NY – Say “No” to the Windmills!

https://easternorthodoxchristiansunite2.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/support-the-holy-trinity-monastery-seminary-in-jordanville-ny-say-no-to-the-windmills/

@meduza_en

#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
👉#PutinUnmasked by #CaveMonastery, a 🧵👈

(4/n)

...as a sacred site of reunification and #orthodox identity.

*Essence of #Putin's 2021 essay:*

👉#Putin's treatment of #Kyviv and #KievanRus cultural heritage constructs a narrative of unbroken civilizational continuity anchored in language, #OrthodoxChristianity, and dynastic legitimacy.👈 Cultural artifacts—chronicles, geographical names, ecclesiastical institutions—are enlisted to support the claim...

@meduza_en

#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
👉#PutinUnmasked by #CaveMonastery, a 🧵👈

(2/n)

Therein:

👉#Putin's Conceptualization of #Kiev and #KievanRus as *Common* #CulturalHeritage: 👈

1. The primacy of Kievan Rus as a unified civilizational project,

2. Kiev's institutional supremacy and canonical precedence,

3. The adoption of #OrthodoxChristianity as the decisive cultural and civilizational marker unifying the #Rus lands,

4. #Linguistic continuity and shared language,

5. #Kiev...

#poetry #OrthodoxChristianity Here's a new poem I wrote and recorded today. If Substack gives you trouble, you can also find it as part of my podcast called Wonder-woven. It's called "You Caught Me Up," and it has a Christian theme. https://open.substack.com/pub/smfeir/p/you-caught-me-up?r=1u329d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://www.europesays.com/people/75422/ Trump-backed faith event critics decry blurring of church-state lines #AnnieLaurieGaylor #ChristianFaith #ConservativeChristian #ContemporaryChristian #EvangelicalChristianity #FreedomFromReligionFoundation #MarcoRubio #NationalIntelligenceTulsiGabbard #OrthodoxChristianity #PeteHegseth #SecretaryOfStateMarcoRubio #Trump #VicePresidentJDVance

Moldovan Church Dispute: Legal Upholding Amid Tensions (61 chars)

Overview of the Church Occupation Dispute By Alexander Tanas Background of the Churches CHISINAU, Feb 11 (Reuters) –…
#Moldova #MD #Europe #Europa #EU #churchoccupation #lawenforcement #MetropolisofBessarabia #MoldovaMetropolis #MoldovanPrimeMinister #OrthodoxChristianity #publicorderoffences #Religiousconflict
https://www.europesays.com/2775236/

Moldovan Church Dispute: Legal Upholding Amid Tensions (61 chars) https://www.byteseu.com/1793856/ #ChurchOccupation #LawEnforcement #MetropolisOfBessarabia #Moldova #MoldovaMetropolis #MoldovanPrimeMinister #OrthodoxChristianity #PublicOrderOffences #ReligiousConflict

Orthodox saint meets Chicago gang life in gritty crime flick 'Moses the Black'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/align/orthodox-saint-meets-chicago-gang-life-in-gritty-crime-flick-moses-the-black

was cast out of Eden because of envy. It was a terrible fall. But You, O Master, did not overlook me. But You assumed my nature for me, and You were crucified. And You save me and bring me into glory. O my Redeemer, glory to You!

#JesusChrist #OrthodoxChristianity

Russia’s Largest State-Backed Supremacist Movement Is Thriving Above the Law

Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches - BBC News

#religion #christianity #toxicMasculanity #antifeminism #orthodoxchristianity #russia

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro.amp?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1

Just mentioned to my elderly aunt that today is #Easter in both the Western & Orthodox (Eastern) Christian Churches. She responded by saying she didn’t know they were ever on different days then asked what #OrthodoxChristianity was as she had never heard of it 🤯 She’s an Italian-American #Catholic living in the center of the U.S. (same city & state we were both born in), so I seriously do not understand how she got to be 80-something without ever hearing of the Orthodox Church…but, apparently, she did.

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

#Troparion
Behold, the Bridegroom is coming in the middle of the night; and blessed is the servant He shall find awake and watching; unworthy is the other He shall find being lazy. So beware, O soul of mine, be not overcome by sleep, so that you not be handed over to death and be shut out from the Kingdom. Come to your senses and cry aloud: Holy, holy, holy are You our God. By the protection of the Bodiless Hosts have mercy on us.

Both now and ever and to the ages of ages. Amen.

#OrthodoxChristian #OrthodoxChristianity #OrthodoxCatholic #HolyWeek

Rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia.

#Ethiopia #Lalibela #rockhewnchurches #orthodoxchristianity

Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia.

#Lalibela #Ethiopia #church #rockhewnchurch #orthodoxchristianity

"How can we speak of these things, Gerondissa?
You cannot understand. Our tongues cannot speak such things; we cannot describe it. It is something heavenly! Oh, what happens during the Divine Liturgy! Angels, archangels! The church fills with more angels than the number of our breaths."

- Geronda Gabriel of the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration in Flamourios

#quote #angels #christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #GreekOrthodox #monasticism #mysticism

Israel has bombed one of the oldest Orthodox churches in the world, St. Porphyrios in Gaza. It was filled with Christian and Muslim refugees sheltering from raids. Mainly women and children.

#orthodoxchristian #orthodox #orthodoxchristianity #christian #christianorthodoxy #christiantiktok #orthodoxy #orthodoxchurch #palestine #freepalestine #stporphyrios

https://www.tiktok.com/@orthodoxessence/video/7292053053727935787

O joyful light of the holy glory of the immortal Father, the heavenly, holy, blessed Jesus Christ. Now that we have reached the setting of the sun and behold the evening light, we sing to God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is fitting at all times to praise you with cheerful voices, O Son of God, the Giver of life. Behold, the world sings your glory.
O Lord, keep us this evening without sin. Blessed are you, O Lord, God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is your name to the ages. Amen. O Lord, let your mercy be upon us for we have set our hope in you. Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your commandments. Blessed are you, Master, grant me understanding of your commandments. Blessed are you, Holy One, enlighten me with your commandments. Lord your mercy is forever. Do not despise the works of your hands. To you is due praise, to you is due song, to you is due glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.

#Christianity #Vespers #EveningPrayer #ChristianPrayer #ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity

There are three things that impel us towards what is holy: natural instincts, angelic powers and probity of intention. Natural instincts impel us when, for example, we do to others what we would wish them to do to us (cf. Luke 6:31), or when we see someone suffering deprivation or in need and naturally feel compassion. Angelic powers impel us when, being ourselves impelled to something worthwhile, we find we are providentially helped and guided. We are impelled by probity of intention when, discriminating between good and evil, we choose the good.

St. Maximos the Confessor
Second Century on Love no. 32, #Philokalia Vol. 2 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 71, 7th century #Christianity #Catholicism #ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity #StMaximosTheConfessor #BibleStudy

#Apolytikion
Plagal Fourth Mode
With the rivers of your tears, you have made the barren desert fertile. Through sighs of sorrow from deep within you, your labors have borne fruit a hundred-fold. By your miracles you have become a light, shining upon the world. O Chariton, our Holy Father, pray to Christ our God, to save our souls.
#ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity #SaintChariton

#Kontakion
Second Mode
Delighting in abstinence, O godly-minded one, and reining in the desires of thy flesh, thou wast seen to be increasing in faith. And thou didst blossom forth like the tree of life in the midst of Eden, O all-blessed and most sacred Chariton.
#ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity #SaintChariton

Your Martyrs, O Lord, were worthily awarded by You * the crowns of incorruption, in that they contested for You our immortal God. * Since they possessed Your power, they defeated the tyrants, * dashing the demons' powerless displays of defiance. * O Christ God, at their fervent entreaties, save our souls. #Christianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity

Δόξα σοι ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, δόξα σοι.
Βασιλεῦ οὐράνιε, Παράκλητε, τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὁ πανταχοῦ παρὼν καὶ τὰ πάντα πληρῶν, ὁ θησαυρὸς τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ ζωῆς χορηγός, ἐλθὲ καὶ σκήνωσον ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ καθάρισον ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης κηλῖδος καὶ σῷσον, Ἀγαθέ, τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν.

#ChristianPrayer #Christianity #HolyTrinity #GreekOrthodox #ChristianOrthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity

The Conception of St. John the Baptist
September 23 #ChristianFeastDay

This came to pass fifteen months before the birth of Christ, after the vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the Temple while he executed the priest's office in the order of his course during the feast of the Tabernacles, as tradition bears witness. In this vision, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Zacharias and said to him, "Thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John" (Luke 1:13). Knowing that Elizabeth was barren, and that both he and she were elderly, Zacharias did not believe what the Angel told him, although he had before him the example of Abraham and Sarah, of Hannah, mother of the Prophet Samuel, and of other barren women in Israel who gave birth by the power of God. Hence, he was condemned by the Archangel to remain speechless until the fulfilment of these words in their season, which also came to pass (Luke 1:7-24).

#Christianity #OrthodoxChristian #OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #DailyReadingsApp #JohnTheBaptist #AngelsAreReal

Ἔτι καὶ ἔτι ἐν εἰρήνῃ τοῦ Κυρίου δεηθῶμεν.
Again and again, in peace, let us pray to the Lord.

( Κύριε, ἐλέησον. )
( Lord, have mercy. )

Ἀντιλαβοῦ, σῶσον, ἐλέησον καὶ διαφύλαξον ἡμᾶς, ὁ Θεός, τῇ σῇ χάριτι.
Help us, save us, have mercy on us, and protect us, O God, by Your grace.

( Κύριε, ἐλέησον. )
( Lord, have mercy. )

Τῆς παναγίας, ἀχράντου, ὑπερευλογημένης, ἐνδόξου, δεσποίνης ἡμῶν Θεοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας μετὰ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων μνημονεύσαντες, ἑαυτοὺς καὶ ἀλλήλους καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ζωὴν ἡμῶν Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ παραθώμεθα.
Commemorating our most holy, pure, blessed, and glorious Lady, the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, with all the saints, let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ our God.

( Σοί, Κύριε. )
( To You, O Lord. )

Ὅτι σὸν τὸ κράτος καὶ σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα, τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων.
For Yours is the dominion, and Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages.

( Ἀμήν. )
(Amen)

#Christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #ChristianPrayer #GreekOrthodox #GreekOrthodoxy #GreekCatholic

“Libertas mea Christi servitium est, cui ego quotidie pura mente deservio.”

Virgin Martyr #SaintJulia of Carthage/Corsica/Nonza - her feast day is today in #OrthodoxChristianity

#StCatherine the Great Martyr of Sinai in the First Tone

Let us praise now with hymns the distinguished bride of Christ, and the protectress of Sinai, our assistance in need, and our comforting support, godly Katherine. For she has brilliantly made mute the unrighteous ones of wit, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and being crowned as a martyr, she pleads on our behalf for God's great mercy.

Την πανεύφημον νύμφην Χριστού υμνήσωμεν, Αικατερίναν την θείαν και πολιούχον Σινά, την βοήθειαν ημών και αντίληψιν ότιεφήμωσε λαμπρώς τους κομψούς των ασεβών του Πνεύματος τηv dynamin, και νυν ως μάρτυς στεφθείσα, αιτείται πάσι το μέγα έλεος.

#OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #GreekOrthodox #GreekOrthodoxy #OrthodoxCatholic #Catholicism #Catholic

Resurrectional #Apolytikion in the Plagal First Tone

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

#Christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #Catholicism #Catholic #Hymn

The Lord says to His disciples, 'Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven' (Matt. 5:16). He does not say this to urge them to show off, but to urge them to organize their lives as is pleasing to God. Just as light effortlessly attracts people's gaze, so a way of life pleasing to God draws their minds along with their eyes. We do not praise the air which shares in the brilliance of the sunlight, but the sun which is the source of this brilliance and bestows it on us. Even if we do praise the air for its brightness, we praise the sun much more. So it is when someone makes the brilliance of the Sun of righteousness (Mal. 4:2) visible through his virtuous deeds. As soon as anyone looks at him, they are immediately led towards the glory of the Father in heaven of Christ, the Sun of righteousness.

#StGregoryPalamas

Homilies Vol. 1, Homily Ten para. 14; Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press pgs. 110-111, 14th century

#Christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #Catholicism #Catholic #FathersOfTheChurch #ChurchFathers

Something I'm finding hard to comprehend are the feast days during Great Lent. When a feast and strict fasting coincide on the calendar, wat do? #Orthodoxy #OrthodoxChristianity

#Vegan chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts

#fasting #orthodoxChristianity

I don’t think I ever did one of these when I joined, so here goes!
#introduction #introductions

Hello! My name is Andrew. I’m a software engineer working out of the mountains of North Carolina, USA. I enjoy many things: making things like #software and #circuits , #analoguephotography , #reading (when I can convince my brain to), #transit , #walkability , #bicycleCommuting , #gardening , #cooking , #lowtech and #notech , #hiking , #oss , #orthodoxChristianity , #gemini , and much more!