"The real reason for depressive disorders usually lies in the sins a man has committed. The holy Fathers believed that the basis of all mental suffering is pride. Therefore, in order to get rid of neurotic depression we should strive to acquire humility. An overstated level of human aspirations not carried out in life, a conflict between what is desired and what is real, always leave a feeling of sorrow, frustration, bitterness, and disappointment in the soul"
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The bottom of the rabbit hole is Christ and His Church.
Christ is not only great but He is the Creator and Source and Inspirer of everything truly great in the history of mankind. While in exile and misery on the island of St. Helena, Napoleon, a man of transient greatness, uttered these words: "Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Louis XIV, with all their genius, are nothing. They have conquered the world and were unable to gain one friend. And behold, Christ calls and instantly entire generations are united in a bond closer and stronger than the bond of blood. Christ ignites the fire of love which consumes all egoism and surpasses any kind of love whatever."
-The Prologue of Ohrid
Heavy Things Lightly
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"Let everything take second place to our care of our children, our bringing them up to the discipline and instruction of the Lord. If from the beginning we teach them to love true wisdom, they will have great wealth and glory than riches can provide... He is truly rich who does not desire great possessions, or surround himself with wealth, but who requires nothing…Don’t think that only monks need to learn the Bible; Children about to go out into the world stand in greater need of Scriptural knowledge.”
+ St John Chrysostom
"Temptations bring humility. God knows how much each one of us can withstand in terms of temptations. Thus, He allows temptations to the extent of our strength. But at the same time we need to be alert and watchful, so we do not tempt ourselves. We should also remember that after trials and temptations, spiritual joy will follow. The Lord watches over those who endure trials and tribulations for His love."
+St Nektarios of Aegina
In an age of complete distrust, few things are more ironic than the trust most people put into the Nasa/SpaceX hoopla.
"Our Faith is well established and proved. The trail of God is well blazed in the world. No one has need to doubt. Christ's Resurrection is well witnessed. No one need despair. Doubt and despair are two worms that are born of that which sin spews forth. He who does not sin, clearly sees the trail blazed by God in the world and clearly recognizes the Resurrection of Christ."
+ St Nikolai Velimirovic
I dont think any reasonable person would deny the reality of species adaptation (foxes having particular ear sizes, birds having different beaks, humans having diffetent colored skin, etc) but species moving from one form to another is absurd.
Evolution is absurd at face but, like most everything we have been fed, has been accepted and has led to the deep atheism the world holds to in this post modern age.
Everything the world teaches has, at its root, the goal of denying both the incarnation and resurrection of the God-Man. That is why, 2000 years into the church, we have SO many absurdities around us. Denying Logos creates chaos.
The full revelation of the God of the universe is realized in the 2nd person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. The Holy Scriptures point to and help unravel this revelation, but Christianity is not a "religion" of the book (like rabbinic judaism and Islam both are) rather is fully realized and experienced in the body of Christ, the continuation of the incarnation, the Church.
Saint Matthew covers the ways in which humanity can experience the God of the universe starting in chapter 5 of his gospel (the beatitudes).
These conversations are tough via the internet and I am not blessed to apologize for Christianity, but objective truth does exist and truth is a person-truth is God incarnate, truth is Jesus Christ.
If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.
-St. Athanasius of Alexandria
Understand that Truth is a person, the 2nd person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. 🙏
John 1:14 — And God became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
This was an excellent read.
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The difference between our contemporary understanding of the symbol and the original one consists in the fact that while today we understand the symbol as the representation or sign of an absent reality, something that is not really in the sign itself (just as there is no real, actual water in the chemical symbol H2O), in the original understanding it is the manifestation and presence of the other reality-but precisely as other, which, under given circumstances, cannot be manifested and made present in any other way than as symbol....
For the essence of the symbol lies in the fact that in the dichotomy between reality and symbolism (as unreality) is overcome: reality is experienced above all as fulfilnent of the symbol, and the symbol is comprehended as the fulfilment of reality.
Alexander Schmemann- The Eucharist
