Thomas

† St. Sergius of Radonezh †

This blog loves and supports joulutorttu with jam inside and on top 🇫🇮🎅

Reason 219: Whenever Finland achieves something, no matter how slight, we all meet in the square to party. Torilla tavataan!

“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”

Dont ask why, just reblog and listen

Prefection is fake, only a Devine creator could….

Frozen Fountains via ckylptyrasculpture

Ode 6 Irmos of the Canon of the Cross

A bride and groom at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Vancouver, Canada. (Credit: Will Pursell)

Some of the oldest Orthodox Churches in Russia, built entirely out of wood without the use of a single nail.

BnF, Latin 920, fol. 180r