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-It is later than you think! Hasten, therefore, to do the work of God. ☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose

St. Lazarus Tomb! ☦️

We are approaching Holy Week! I hope the great fast has been fruitful for you brothers and sisters in Christ 🙏let us struggle for a little longer so we can celebrate the most significant event in the history of the universe☦️

John 1:1-4 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Do understand that St. John is claiming that the very axioms/truths/laws of the universe are infact the person (the 2nd person of the Trinity) Jesus who is the Logos (reason, logic, etc) incarnate... God incarnate. He is using the same language we see in the Genesis narrative on purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpkkQhwDles

Pascha is coming!

“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death...O grave, I will be your destruction.” (Hos. 12:14) “I know that my redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” (Job 19:25-26)

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is writen, Death is swallowed up in victory” (I Cor. 15:54) “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.” ☦️ Resurrection Troparion, Resurrection Matins

A contrast revealed in icons

St. Mary of Egypt: repented in tears, struggled valiantly against temptations and received the longed-for Mystical Supper, the Cup of Salvation, from the hand of St. Zozimas.

Judas Iscariot: left the Mystical Supper after betraying his Master, leaving behind an empty halo and a mere silhouette in the place of where he should have been had he not turned his back on Jesus Christ. He brought upon himself the despair of guilt without repentance.

Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe

Genesis, Creation, and Early Man by Fr. Seraphim Rose (worth the read even if you don't hold to an Orthodox Christian worldview)

Darwin On Trial by Phillip E. Johnson

Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality by E Michael Jones ( Jones dedicates a small portion of this book to the absurd presuppositions of Darwinian evolution)