"My beloved Orthodoxy..."

[Marjorie]

"My beloved Orthodoxy, you are like an enslaved nation. A thousand winds battle you, wanting to uproot you from the earth, and have decided to make you a lost remembrance, a museum piece showing a tragic history, and yet the great Lord, the triune God, who governs wisely from above, has hidden you from them in a discrete corner, like a flower under a stone, enabling you to keep a few, simple, devout, and humble souls. Yes, you continue to live and exist, and to nurture generations of the young, and will, I am sure, forever. For you display the path that leads to the gates of eternity for all who seek."

- from Saint Nektarios: The Saint of Our Century by Sotos Chrondropoulos

:crosseo:

In IC XC,
Marjorie

[Tsarina]

Thats beaufitul, Marjorie. :angel:

Thank you for sharing that with us. Im going to look into this saying by Saint Nektarios and see what else i can find. :)

Godbless.

[repentant]

"My beloved Orthodoxy, you are like an enslaved nation. A thousand winds battle you, wanting to uproot you from the earth, and have decided to make you a lost remembrance, a museum piece showing a tragic history, and yet the great Lord, the triune God, who governs wisely from above, has hidden you from them in a discrete corner, like a flower under a stone, enabling you to keep a few, simple, devout, and humble souls. Yes, you continue to live and exist, and to nurture generations of the young, and will, I am sure, forever. For you display the path that leads to the gates of eternity for all who seek."

- from Saint Nektarios: The Saint of Our Century by Sotos Chrondropoulos

:crosseo:

In IC XC,
Marjorie


This was a GREAT book. Very well written. It was so sad to see how he was slandered so badly. But that is what helped in his humility and his becoming a Saint. There's some of that going on nowadays.

[Petronius]

"My beloved Orthodoxy, you are like an enslaved nation. A thousand winds battle you, wanting to uproot you from the earth, and have decided to make you a lost remembrance, a museum piece showing a tragic history, and yet the great Lord, the triune God, who governs wisely from above, has hidden you from them in a discrete corner, like a flower under a stone, enabling you to keep a few, simple, devout, and humble souls. Yes, you continue to live and exist, and to nurture generations of the young, and will, I am sure, forever. For you display the path that leads to the gates of eternity for all who seek."

- from Saint Nektarios: The Saint of Our Century by Sotos Chrondropoulos

:crosseo:

In IC XC,
Marjorie
Marjorie,

This is a great and a right-to-heart going confession and expresses all past and makes us feel sure about the future. Thanks for you work to communicate it to others.

[Petronius]

Tsarina,
this out of the thread, you may have already wrote somewhere about this, but I still dare.
You should share your conversion story with us. Only from a few hints I got from previous posts from you, it looks like a story in the early centuries of Christianity, under Nero, Diocletianus ...
I also think that it would be very instructive for those who take these freedoms as granted or who were born and rised in a traditional Orthodox environment and "stop to see the forrest because of the trees". Be blessed, you were really gifted by God.