In Scripture, incense is a symbol of prayer: "Let my prayer arise in your sight as incense" (Ps. 140:2 [141:2], VP). "And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel" (Rev. 8:4, ESV). But the act of censing is also a sign of veneration: "Everywhere a sacrifice of incense is offered to my name" (Mal. 1:11, VP). At the Divine Liturgy, the clergy cense the Holy Gifts, the icons, and also the people. This illustrates the profound respect the Orthodox Church has for the human person, made in the Image of God. The greatest icon is the human being. - Journey to the Kingdom: An Insider's Look at the Liturgy and Beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Father Vassilios Papavassiliou

Saint Paisios the Athonite

Black Lesbian History ✊🏿⚢🪧🗣️📢💥👩🏿‍❤️‍👩🏿

its like the 2000s to early 2010s again where talking to anyone theres a good chance they'll casually say a slur without any thought

'oh its fine because i'm legally mentally disabled so i can say it' NOT HOW RECLAMATION WORKS

STOP TALKING LIKE A FUCKING NAZI

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

im never leaving this hellsite

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

Saint Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony of Essex

How can people who have women like Zippora in the Bible, who went with Moses instead of staying at home and and even saves him from God's wrath, think a woman needs to passive all the time. The blessed Mary, Saints like St. Hildegard all exist, and yet a woman is supposed to be nothing virtuous. The 'tradwife' ideal is nothing more than a creation of the so heavily imposed American lifestyle, a reflection of a puritanical Christian culture, but it seems that the biggest contenders of it are anything but Protestant.

But I try to trust in the Lord and our priests, that they are able to handle this, and guide the guys to a more healthy approach to Orthodoxy. There has actually been some young men's group in my our country's different parishes, which I believe is for this reason so that the new guys could grow into this healthy Orthodoxy

The Art of Salvation by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

This has been happening since November of last year, when this vote took place, but no one is talking about it. The rehabilitation of the image of the papacy through Pope Leo is killing me, it’s still the goddamn Catholic Church. You do not gotta hand it to them.