He Who Conquers One Opponent Proves Himself Stronger Than Another, But He Who Conquers Passion Proves

“He who conquers one opponent proves himself stronger than another, but he who conquers passion proves himself stronger than himself.”

+ St. Cyprian of Carthage

most evil cat in the monastery 🐈

The funniest Protestant L I’ve ever heard’s gotta be when an American Protestant couple went to Russia as missionaries to convert the people there to their flavor of Protestantism.

They took their two kids, both girls who were National Bible Bee Champions, to Moscow and while they were there, the two girls joined the Orthodox Church and when they went back to America, the daughters entered a monastery and both became nuns.

Speechless be the lips of impious ones,

Those who do not reverence your great icon, the sacred one,

Which is called Directress (Hodegetria) and was depicted for us,

By one of the Apostles, Luke the Evangelist.

(from the Megalynaria for the Theotokos)

Byzantine icon of the Madonna (Theotokos) and Child, of the type known as Hodegetria (Our Lady of the Way): Mary gestures toward the infant Christ, who in turn raises his hand in a sign of blessing. The type originated in a now lost icon from the Monastery of the Panagia Hodegetria in Constantinople that was said to have been painted by St. Luke. This example, by an unknown artist, dates to the 14th century and is in the MUZA, Valletta, Malta.