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We can’t see the future—but know this, that if you love God and His Orthodox Church and your fellow men—God can and will use you. Only stay in contact with fellow Orthodox strugglers (they do exist). -Fr. Seraphim Rose, letter dated June 24/July 7, 1974

St. Xenia of Saint Petersburg, pray for us! ☦️📿

I had to do it. The Latins are getting a little too sassy this week. 👌

@TateTheTalisman All Catholics on X right now. Get aboard the Ark of salvation, the Orthodox Church. I wish you all the best -Cleave

🔸 The Sunday of Thomas 👉🩸🔸 Today, the Sunday following Holy Pascha, is the Sunday of Saint Thomas. This Sunday is also called Antipascha (meaning “in place of Pascha”) since this day marks the conclusion of Bright Week, after which every Sunday of the year is consecrated to the commemoration of the Resurrection. The events of this day are recorded in the Holy Gospel according to Gospel of John 20:19–29. On the evening of the Resurrection, the disciples were gathered together with the doors shut for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in their midst, saying, “Peace be with you” (John 20:19), and showed them His hands and His side. Thomas was not present when Jesus appeared, and he did not accept the testimony of the other disciples concerning His Bodily Resurrection. When the disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord”, Thomas responded, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe” (John 20:25). On the eighth day after the Resurrection, the disciples were again gathered, with Thomas also present this time. And again Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst saying, “Peace to you!”. He then spoke directly to Thomas and said, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelleving, but believing” (John 20:27). Thomas then immediately confessed his faith, proclaiming, “My Lord and my God!”. Jesus replied saying, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29). While western traditions often mischaracterise the Apostle as “Doubting Thomas”, this event from the Gospel instead reveals the overwhelming desire of Saint Thomas to participate in the joy of the Lord’s bodily Resurrection upon seeing the wounds inflicted on His flesh on the Cross, as the other disciples had already witnessed. The Orthodox tradition therefore refers to this icon as “The Touching of Thomas” or “The Assurance of Thomas”, since it ultimately reflects the proclamation of his faith in the Bodily Resurrection of Christ.

My Lord and My God: The Faith That Clings to Christ Thomas Sunday “My Lord and my God!” exclaimed the holy Apostle Thomas. Do you feel with what strength he clung to the Lord and how firmly he held on to Him? Not even a drowning man holds more tightly to a plank that gives him some hope of salvation from drowning. We may say that one does not yet believe as he ought if he does not relate to the Lord in this way. We say: “The Lord is the Savior,” meaning that He is the Savior of all, but the Apostle says: “My Lord and Savior.” He who says “My Savior” feels his own salvation, which proceeds from Him. The sense of salvation is proportional to the sense of the destruction from which the Savior has delivered the one who is saved. The feeling of perishing in a man who naturally loves life, yet knows he cannot save himself, compels him to seek a Savior. And when he finds Him and feels the power of salvation that flows from Him, he clings firmly to Him and does not wish to be separated, even if for this he should be deprived of life itself. Such events in the spiritual life of a Christian are not merely imagined by the mind, but actually take place in reality. Both faith and union with Christ become as strong as life and death. Only such people sincerely cry out: “Who shall separate me…?” St. Theophan the Recluse - Thoughts for Every Day of the Year buymeacoffee.com/holyresurrecti… holyresurrection.shop +++ Every temple is built first in the heart. If you would like to help us lay the foundation for our future church home, you may become a $1 Monthly Supporter. bit.ly/BuildOurParish A small, steady offering offered in faith becomes a quiet work of grace. Or One time Gift: bit.ly/BuildOurParish… givesendgo.com/BuildOurParish May Christ bless you and your household. +++

"There Is No Death" by Aleksandr Prostev, 2023

“According to Orthodox faith, the divine sacraments are not limited to seven, as legal catechesis shaped by Western thought often teaches. Rather, every prayer service that a priest performs at the request of a believer is, in a real sense, a sacrament” - His Eminence Met. Saba

That’s one thing people forget about the Orthodox… We’re don’t just have the faith of the apostles We don’t just have the wisdom of the Saints We have the strength of Christ We are always ready for battle, within ourselves or for our faith and family Bravery is Orthodox ☦️

☦️ORTHODOX MONASTICISM☦️ Monasticism (from the greek μοναχός—solitary) is the ancient Christian practice of withdrawal from the world in order to dedicate oneself fully and intensely to the life of the Gospel, seeking union with our Lord Jesus Christ. The focus of monasticism is the soul’s purification, illumination, and deification, or theosis. It is the process of perfection in Christ to which every Christian is called: “Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). Within their monastery enclosure, monastics live a life of spiritual stillness called hesychasm, working in silence and constant prayer throughout the day, keeping vigil at night, and carefully attending to their thoughts and feelings through inner watchfulness and prayer, while participating continually in the Sacraments and the liturgical life of the Church. At the center of this life lived for Christ is the ceaseless repetition—vocally or silently—of the Jesus prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.” This prayer, practiced within the framework of perfect obedience to the monastery’s abbot, brings the grace of God into the disciples’ souls. With patience and perseverance, in time and by the great mercy of God, they attain to the acquisition of the Holy Spirit. Ceaseless prayer of the heart is a commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself: “And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). This form of concentrated, unremitting, noetic prayer was first practiced by the Holy Apostles and then handed down to each generation of Christians, monastics and laity alike, as Saint Paul exhorted: “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). Dwelling in freedom from distractions and living outside the bustle of the modern world, the monastic offers this prayer to God for the salvation of the entire world. Concerning the apostolic monastic life, Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos writes: Monasticism is the glory of the Church, and the monks, as Saint Gregory of Nyssa taught, are the crown of the body of the Church. The monastic life is the Christian life, the way of the Prophets, Apostles, and Martyrs. In reality, it is the evangelical life, as a life of repentance and keeping Christ’s commandments to as perfect a degree as possible. Christ taught this life in His Sermon on the Mount, in His exhortations to be vigilant and take heed, to have absolute faith in God, to avoid cares that cause anxiety, and so on. He often went up on the mountain to pray on His own, not because He needed to, but to teach us this way of life. He Himself urged us to pray in the inner chamber, and when we have shut the door, to pray to our Father Who is in secret (Matt. 6:6). If one reads the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of the Apostles, they will find that the first Christians—imitating the apostolic community of Christ—lived by prayer, common life, inspiration, with all possessions held in common, and they expected the coming of the Kingdom of God, which they experienced as a spiritual reality.

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BEZUHLIIVKA, UKRAINE — The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) parish of St. Michael’s Church in Bezuhlivka was reportedly seized on April 16, 2026, by representatives of the state-backed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), according to the Dozor Kozak Telegram channel.

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St. Xenia of Saint Petersburg, pray for us! ☦️📿

ENGLEWOOD, NJ — Metr. Saba has called for a renewed understanding of the “sanctifying dimension” of Christian life, warning that many believers have reduced faith to intellectual conviction and outward practice rather than lived spiritual transformation.

Christ, my children, founded one Church, our Church, our Orthodoxy. — Saint Amphilochios of Patmos