Thought of the day Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. “Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit.” Recognize that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body. St. John of Kronstadt

GM ✝️ It's Forgiveness Sunday 🫂

GM Nostr ✝️ The Mother of God with infant Christ, detail Fresco, 1309-1313, Virgin of Ljeviška, Prizren

Doubt is easy when it’s just you and a few years of scattered thoughts; faith comes from a civilization that conquered the world.

There is nothing in Christianity worth defending or dying for when the transcendent element is stripped away. All people are left with is ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘forgive those who sin against you’ as ends in themselves, loving their enemies all the way to the slaughterhouse.

Miracle in Hona Fresco, 1318-1321, Monastery Gračanica

Thought of the day The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. St. John of Damascus