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Evolution is fake and ghey 👌 They told us in school that nature is ruled by "survival of the fittest." But this is not the teaching of the Church. In truth, creation is fallen. It was made good — "And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31) — but it now groans under the weight of corruption: "For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope… For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." (+Romans 8:20–22) Look at this ram. His horns, given to him by God as a natural glory and a sign of strength, now turn against him. This is not merely "natural selection" — it is a manifestation of the fallen order of the world, which is distorted by sin and mortality. In a fallen world, even the good gifts of God can become burdens. As the Holy Fathers teach, sin curves us inward — where even strength becomes pride, beauty becomes vanity, and natural desire becomes disordered passion. "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." (+1 Corinthians 3:19) "He that loveth his life shall lose it." (+John 12:25) We must not envy the strength of the powerful or the success of the worldly. These things pass away. True life is not found in competition or reproduction, but in Christ, Who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life." (+John 14:6) In Orthodoxy, we see nature through the Cross and Resurrection. What has been corrupted may be healed. What is curved inward can be lifted upward through repentance, humility, and divine grace. This ram is a living parable of our condition. Let us not mock him or turn away — let us learn . "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (+Matthew 5:5) "The last shall be first, and the first last." (+Matthew 20:16 ) Let us offer even our strength to God — lest it destroy us. For in Christ, weakness becomes strength, and death is trampled by death.

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You see that in daytime everything can be seen clearly. Anyone can tell apart harm from good, a ditch from a road, white from black, and one thing from another. Discern that the man enlightened by the light of Christ’s grace can see everything clearly with hi spiritual eyes. He discerns good from evil, and virtue from vice. He sees spiritual harm, and avoids it. He sees vices in the soul, and cleanses them by repentance and tears with God’s help. ☦️St. Tikhon of Zadonsk .

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A blessed Lord's day to you all! ☦️St Photini of Samaria saw "the Water of Wisdom, and drank abundantly. She inherited the Kingdom on High and is ever glorified!" The 5th Sunday of Pascha is the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman who spoke with Christ at Jacob's Well (John 4:1-42). In the tradition of the Church, we know her as Photini (or Photine, Photina, Svetlana). She is sometimes called the first evangelist since after her encounter with Christ at the well, she told her townspeople that she had met the Christ. St Photini laboured fearlessly in the spread of the Gospel and finally received the crown of martyrdom in Rome with her two sons and five sisters.

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#Christianity Holodomor (1932–1933): Approximately 3.4 to 6.8 million Christians died in Ukraine, based on 3.5–7 million total deaths and a 97% Christian population. Soviet Russia (1917–1953): An estimated 5 to 15 million Christians died due to famines, purges, gulags, and anti-religious campaigns, though this range is speculative due to overlapping causes and limited religious data

This was fantastic. If you are a dispensationalist I urge you to give this a go (it is part 2 of a 3 part series). The Lord of Spirits: Kingdoms of Israel: Reckoning Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage:

Kingdoms of Israel: Reckoning | Ancient Faith Ministries

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A “struggler” is one who does not trust his own opinion and no one else’s; who does not “know better” on everything, who does not set himself up as an ultimate authority, who does not form cliques and try to crush anyone outside the clique. But if they are not strugglers, but only “experts,” all their good labors will come to ruin, sooner or later. ☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose

GM☕☦️ "The Church is the pillar and buttress of truth." Ephesians 4:4-6 — There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Jude 1:3 — Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 1 Timothy 3:15 — if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 2 Peter 3:15-17 — And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

"Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves." ☦️St. Athanasius of Alexandria “The Christian life is a constant battle, but the weapons we use are not of this world—they are prayer, fasting, and love, which conquer through the power of Christ.” ☦️ St. John of San Francisco "When the heart is full of love, it speaks even in silence." ☦️St. Paisios of Mt Athos

"The joy of Pascha is the foretaste of eternal life, for Christ has trampled death by death and granted life to those in the tombs." ☦️St. Seraphim of Sarov

Even while feasting on the good things of this earth that are permitted to us in this joyful season, we should yet thirst for what lies above the earth, for the Holy Spirit Whose coming we await even while we enjoy the presence among us of the Risen Lord. ☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose