Faith - The Parnassian (Page 22)

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Non-stop vandalism in churches, cemeteries, squares and memorials across Europe

Non-stop vandalism in churches, cemeteries, squares and memorials across Europe. But the most frightening thing is that this is only the beginning

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God will give you not the people you want, but those you need: people who will help you, hurt you, leave you, love you, and make you the person you are meant to be

Saint Nectarios of Aegina

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How heartening it is to see American flags against a backdrop of Orthodox crosses and icons ❤️

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I love beneath the vaults a grey-haired quiet, the wandering of requiems and memorial services, and the moving rite to which all are bound: the funeral service at St Isaac's

I love the priest's unhurried step, The broad bearing-out of the winding-sheet, And in the worn-out net, the Gennesaret gloom Of the weeks of Great Lent. The Old Testament smoke on the warm altars And the priest's lonely cry, The regal humble man:

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It turns out that Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879), also known as Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, rescued an eagle (or was it a bald eagle?), nursed it back to health and set it free, only for the bird to return and become a friend to its saviour

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And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears of corn, And azure sky, and noonday heat…

And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears of corn, And azure sky, and noonday heat… The hour will come, and the Lord will ask the prodigal son: “Were you happy in your life on earth?” And I shall forget everything, remembering only these Field paths between the ears of

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I don't know about you, but I only like the alphabet of Abraham; Enoch's and Ezra's seem off somehow, over-engineered

Each of these alphabets promises a direct line to heaven. Some to Abraham, some to the angels, and some simply to something of the otherworldly sort. Once you start looking into it, it turns out that all these celestial scripts were devised not on Sinai but in some European cellar

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When the Saviour says “love your enemies”, it does not mean that we must bow down before evil, but that we must free ourselves from its shackles

Hieromonk Arseny Boka

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Whatever Anyone May Say

ye who are in tribulations and in sorrows, and in sicknesses burdened with many sins but on 4 November, above all - The Feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

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A self-sacrificing peasant, burning with love for the Motherland, Ivan Susanin laid down his life for Rus, for the faith and for the Tsar

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The Miracle of Saint Justus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1629

A youth beheaded for his faith in Christ rose after the execution, picked up his own head and walked to the place of his future burial

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All Saints' Day, Vasily Kandinsky, 1911

Despite the similarity of name, the Orthodox feast glorifying All Saints, and sanctity itself, has no cultural kinship with Halloween, which is also styled All Saints' Day. On All Saints' Day it is of course the custom to remember in prayer all the servants of God, solemnly and