-It is later than you think! Hasten, therefore, to do the work of God. ☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose
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The Creature from Jekyll Island led me, in a roundabout way, to Jesus Christ and eventually Orthodox Christianity. #nevent1q…6l0w npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Yes npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Such a great tool! Harmony has a great YouTube video that summarizes the book too. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Penal Substitutionary Atonement bros.... Check this out. The Lord of Spirits: Stole Something? Kill a Goat! 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SDY. Well worth a go for the Orthodox inquier or Ortho-curious https://www.youtube.com/live/XsPWYiq4xF0 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Nice work 🤝 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Few understand this https://blossom.primal.net/f4d8ab138f79e08dbd60cf3cc6e8bc939bdfaa9e94cc6fac7a483c4339f171f3.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/0589d3102233cdadbd7672d017b124d3d266adcf4eef6686060540c6a561dace.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/2ca9acd10b299b0691fbeade3390d79f6dce9c4feb0f5cd6907cbf05adb6316e.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ 🫂🤝 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Further, the goal of "isms" is to achieve some sort of utopia. 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The Lord of Spirits: Yesterday, Today & Forever Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/lordofspirits/yesterday-today-forever/ Media file: https://media.ancientfaith.com/lordofspirits/los_2025-12-25.mp3#t=0 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Hard to put this down... #bookstr https://blossom.primal.net/0b7a8330601ff3befa627fb90b02b9f8664ea56e88f78c5e73a9bdf21222f043.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ One of my favorite follows on substack 👀👀 https://substack.com/@theneopuritanobserver npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Love it, thank you. Will fire it up tonight 🙏 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Pop_os people, why should I update to the new COSMIC? npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Incredible listen Counterflow with Buck Johnson: Ep. 396 - Powers & Principalities: The Unseen War Against the Church, with Fr Turbo Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://deathtotyrants.libsyn.com/ep-396-powers-principalities-the-unseen-war-against-the-church-with-fr-turbo Media file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/deathtotyrants/Counterflow_-_Ep._396_-_Fr_Turbo_Qualls.mp3?dest-id=641795#t=0 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Incredible 🤣 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/4338ef0bf3a6002cf9e55a468e0ad085573cd40fafd9b53096cba4e00cccb29f.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ GM 🫂☦️ npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Theophany in Romania ☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/662b12f9eb581badde4314de8603931bd32bc96dc7803961feacd6ae348255fb.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Saint Paisios used to say: “If psychological books did not exist, we would have fewer suicides.” Be careful—psychological books have caused great harm; do not read them. People read these books and fall into despair, because behind Freud, Jung, and all of them are hidden evil spirits (demons), since they were occultists and cooperated with magicians. And the evil spirit is a murderer of humans. It wants to push a person toward suicide. Many who read them condemn themselves. *Hieromonk Savvas Agioritis (Homily, 9–03–2016)* https://blossom.primal.net/8ff389cd681a6dc08b9421aa1a6259231745e8aa549e638df3e2042e2c44af16.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://canonic.xyz/ is a spot you can snag his books with corn 👀 #nevent1q…6rt4 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ I am nearly finished with this and my goodness has it been such a fantastic journey. And it has re-ignited my love for fiction. Before I dive into Dostoevsky's stuff, I plan on getting through a few shorter reads that have come highly recommended from some folks I trust. These titles are from a budding author by the name of Andrew Edwards who is an Orthodox Christian. #bookstr #Christianity #nevent1q…9vwl https://blossom.primal.net/011908844c4a6ccafdb0b9db210aa5d048ef3e98de812097ae4b58c58bf198b6.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/0b7a8330601ff3befa627fb90b02b9f8664ea56e88f78c5e73a9bdf21222f043.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ “I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the sixteenth century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of it that might appear plausible and enlightened from a purely secular standpoint have turned out rotten and reactionary, also from a purely secular standpoint. By substituting the Bible for the sacrament, it created a pedantic caste of those who could read, superstitiously identified with those who could think. By destroying the monks, it took social work from the poor philanthropists who chose to deny themselves, and gave it to the rich philanthropists who chose to assert themselves. By preaching individualism while preserving inequality, it produced modern capitalism. It destroyed the only league of nations that ever had a chance. It produced the worst wars of nations that ever existed. It produced the most efficient form of Protestantism, which is Prussia. And it is producing the worst part of paganism, which is slavery.” - G.K. Chesterton npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/content/the-mythology-of-demographic-collapse-with-jp-marceau npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Not my memes but you all should enjoy them too. https://blossom.primal.net/de005873eed6fc7c263d007173514940aa85a60d060d35a72e640d92a0ad796a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/0dab700a9d79c7cfdbe0ce2eb48364d7fdc60241f21f01e5ba513d88a817d996.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3970b42ef464bb9b2cec225c8eeee1346b8810c872fd68e323e4206b90aec888.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Blessed feast of The Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! When Thou, O Lord, wast baptized in the Jordan, worship of the Trinity wast made manifest; for the voice of the Father bore witness to Thee, calling Thee His beloved Son. And the Spirit in the likeness of a dove confirmed the truth of His word. O Christ our God, Who hast appeared and enlightened the world, glory to Thee. ☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/ed211f02457666822686feddef64cf96a90037a190e30bb8bf5992c4be292a97.mp4 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Who is Alvin Hellerstein? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hellerstein npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/bb200c70e824f767b2754e3cc32022f5252cb394244e71499de786f278133f60.png npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/0492a2878883f4ecd95ec2b2906b94fd8bc525955b644dbac2f69827fed95528.png npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://x.com/Ric_RTP/status/2007429683713917147 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ #heynostr what router do y'all recommend? #asknostr npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ A staunch transhumanist is completely untrustworthy. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ "Why did the Protestant Reformers abandon the Greek Septuagint for a rabbinic textual tradition?" https://blossom.primal.net/4d3f14468371f9e8158c8d139bec2f719770d3e18bd1cf843c493ccb349e9831.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/adedaf4f73ff0588ef5df2a41eeff2b5300f42e9ff5b906b192b5ea6e66e4112.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Yes, I think so. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ I regret buying corn through KYC rails 😔 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Friendly reminder: 12 days of Christmas starts now. Next stop, Theophany! npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Merry Christmas brother 🫂 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Merry Christmas brother! He is a wonderful man, his book on the Orthodox Veneration of The Mother of God is outstanding. Really a great polemic for converts/Protestant friends who have a hard time with our deep love of the Theotokos. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ From the perspective of the Theotokos, the Nativity shines as the mystery in which she offers her full and fearless obedience to God, not as a rival to Christ but as the one who freely receives Him in her flesh and becomes the living gateway of our salvation. In her womb, the Creator fashions for Himself a human nature taken wholly from her, and she bears Him in love while confessing, with deep humility, that the child she nurses is the One through whom all things came to be. Saint Gregory Palamas speaks of her as the boundary between the created and the uncreated, because in her person the human will responds without reserve to divine grace and makes possible the coming of the Word in the flesh (Gregory Palamas, Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos). Her motherhood never diminishes Christ but proclaims His full divinity and full humanity, since He receives from her what He does not possess eternally — our mortal life — while bestowing upon her, and through her upon us, the pledge of glorification. In the Feast of the Nativity, the Church honours her not as the source of salvation, but as the one who consents to become its vessel, and whose joyful assent echoes in every heart that dares to say yes to God. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/ca863767b0842397d3dba7452f10f3c4da1f246112fc4532d5c8eb6a5a7fc593.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Christ is born! Glorify Him! https://blossom.primal.net/6b9c56ba73b13962e60ee7ceff2a75865f02a431b269f697932546c9d34db6c3.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ The grotto of the Nativity, Bethlehem, birthplace of our Lord After many types and prefigurings, messengers and heralds, prophets and righteous men, wise men and kings, finally He appeared, the Lord of the world and King of kings, to perform the work of the salvation of mankind that could not be performed by His servants. May His be eternal glory and praise! Amen. Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One! Angels with shepherds glorify Him! The wise men journey with a star! Since for our sake the Eternal God was born as a Little Child! Kontakion for the Nativity of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ https://blossom.primal.net/b9ae72dd0c4b4397234fd76a84f1240bd72f33a07f45f162d6367c443d80517d.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ The Jews are preparing to celebrate “Nittel Nacht,” a parody of Christmas, where they mock the “hanged” with “latrines,” while reading “Toledot Yeshu,” a medieval story mocking the the Gospel which describes the life of Jesus, from birth to death, and is filled with blasphemous insults. Modern Judaism is not an "alternative continuation of the Second Temple religion, which evolved differently from Christianity,” but a false religion primarily built on rejection and opposition to Christ and Orthodox Christianity. "Is there not a great gulf between us and the Jews? Is it not for the most important of matters that this dispute exists? Why do you mix what cannot be mixed? They crucified Christ, whom you worship." ☦️Saint John Chrysostomos https://blossom.primal.net/8baf17c5e063505671fb6a51675b6579ee87a36a8e1ddc9de8e39a8a973007f0.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ What a wonderful time of year! Without the incarnation of the God-Man Jesus Christ we would not have His Theophany, Transfiguration, Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension! “What was prefigured at that time in the flame of the bush was openly manifested in the mystery of the Virgin… Just as on the mountain the bush burned but was not consumed, so also the Virgin gave birth to the light and was not corrupted.” —St. Gregory of Nyssa in The Life of Moses and On the Birth of Christ☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/d32b80d9642b036056076f4a3076207e20f00cf463130500429133a2070b55c8.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ So difficult to choose but St Paisios is on my list too 🤝 as well as St. John Maximovitch. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Let's hear it! https://blossom.primal.net/0db198f4db5e239533f3b7559c8e0aeeb695a21398211547bfd64d69724e766c.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/0973eadd03a6f78548cf0d2f1aeabb3da86013cfa58f6c65c9d7b673ee19b8f3.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/35ca9dae3f732cdb6e56d5135bed7d90b3d72d4064f69e4a139878bfc398f3b1.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/ab50f9f4c614b8f6324e9442d2fb86e4b76c019ac387d0384df4f5af560b9fa1.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://www.orthodoxethos.com/post/homily-in-preparation-for-christmas-according-to-saint-john-chrysostom npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ From Anthony of Westgate* God entered His creation here 🫂 https://blossom.primal.net/0033137d08a2f4ff38de03f1baf5da37512744ffa5f36d017b519500847a7dc0.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ I don't know much either, it's been recommended throughout the podcast circles I listen too. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Humility leads to righteous discernment, no question about it. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ I plan on reading a bunch of Dostoevsky's stuff for '26 and this bad boy... https://blossom.primal.net/32c294d67009d24fda58912e455ee199b35bae796a955a45421f54be6625415e.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Meditate on these words 🙏 https://blossom.primal.net/51e5cd8db7c840079b0e8f617b46f5b99e985589875b321ee82fb38c46699ecb.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/bffc96aef01d59c991267ebe7c81e9bd7bff287a7fc0ef5cca890fa18c186697.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/c9910c3a177a1aac63afa0ed25da7b160329b2040d8edd1a3ec19ae0d1e8eeda.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/858844b53c7e4770d891a3135677ecf0ba8075feb20f25a3ab55800369231594.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/6a523576252d12dc03e2c27b8fd9353b695b21524004f82613f79de4add4e175.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ 🫂 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ What are you reading now? npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Obsidian is the real deal 🤝 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Based Should be a blended Israeli/USA flag. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ “Of the kingly office one kind is divine, -- that which is according to God and His holy Son, by whom both the good things which are of the earth, and external and perfect felicity too, are supplied. "For," it is said, "seek what is great, and the little things shall be added." And there is a second kind of royalty, inferior to that administration which is purely rational and divine, which brings to the task of government merely the high mettle of the soul; after which fashion Hercules ruled the Argives, and Alexander the Macedonians. The third kind is what aims after one thing -- merely to conquer and overturn; but to turn conquest either to a good or a bad purpose, belongs not to such rule. Such was the aim of the Persians in their campaign against Greece. For, on the one hand, fondness for strife is solely the result of passion, and acquires power solely for the sake of domination; while, on the other, the love of good is characteristic of a soul which uses its high spirit for noble ends. The fourth, the worst of all, is the sovereignty which acts according to the promptings of the passions, as that of Sardanapalus, and those who propose to themselves as their end the gratification of the passions to the utmost. But the instrument of regal sway -- the instrument at once of that which overcomes by virtue, and that which does so by force -- is the power of managing (or tact). And it, varies according to the nature and the material. In the case of arms and of fighting animals the ordering power is the soul and mind, by means animate and inanimate; and in the case of the passions of the soul, which we master by virtue, reason is the ordering power, by affixing the seal of continence and self-restraint, along with holiness, and sound knowledge with truth, making the result of the whole to terminate in piety towards God. For it is wisdom which regulates in the case of those who so practise virtue; and divine things are ordered by wisdom, and human affairs by politics -- all things by the kingly faculty. He is a king, then, who governs according to the laws, and possesses the skill to sway willing subjects. Such is the Lord, who receives all who believe on Him and by Him. For the Father has delivered and subjected all to Christ our King," that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' Now, generalship involves three ideas: caution, enterprise, and the union of the two. And each of these consists of three things, acting as they do either by word, or by deeds, or by both together. And all this can be accomplished either by persuasion, or by compulsion, or by inflicting harm in the way of taking vengeance on those who ought to be punished; and this either by doing what is right, or by telling what is untrue, or by telling what is true, or by adopting any of these means conjointly at the same time.” - Saint Clement of Alexandria; Stromata (book 1, chapter 24) npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ This is SO good. #nevent1q…23x3 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ 🤣 https://blossom.primal.net/9e3d5790640de4c151c8233cc61974f156119f87819c351746adcb3c2703a44e.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Let us know how it goes! npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ 🤝 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Finished Paul's book earlier this week. I cannot recommend it enough. Just fired up another Fr. Florensky book, so far.... mind blowing. #bookstr What are y'all reading? https://blossom.primal.net/b9ebfdf7a565a842155bc97dd9aac91d5eb95c4754f6b7c0b2fa8777d77b3cfa.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/2340682076224fe66e5ff7623473dbe3a250435b85b94e809b74946f98f6c825.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ The Nathan Jacobs Podcast: How the Devil Tried to Steal Christmas | The True Story of the Nativity Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nathan-jacobs7/episodes/How-the-Devil-Tried-to-Steal-Christmas--The-True-Story-of-the-Nativity-e3cgt4m Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/f6a7e968/podcast/play/112800342/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-18%2F414599997-44100-2-123a40ea79cd3.m4a#t=0 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ "Brethren, let us show repentance and conversion from the depths of our hearts, and let us leave off our former evil ways, and let us cleanse ourselves of every stain of the flesh and the spirit. For the day of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is near, on which we are to commune the divine and life-giving sanctification of His Mysteries. So let us keep ourselves well, brethren, and every idea that is thorny and not pure and is unworthy of a devoted activity let us weed out, and in every way let us cleanse ourselves." St. John Chrysostom :: Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Matthew https://blossom.primal.net/fa52590fa0526a1515dd1b0d6ee7940db6804c2a32bf7cacaa7efb6d19409e18.mp4 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/fac93ae913f80647990dea35d117075313a8ce4b2c9e4f103ffdd5f39c265d0a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/24fd6ddbcd25c1e24632e636c17723e22a152aa83b9052dce3e2dc511be9d9e8.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Video that corresponds to the previous quote. #nevent1q…chhy https://blossom.primal.net/37c4bc4f645689b931e4c1bad2e6351197f180587d96d3f8f90b091c22a080c5.mp4 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump's pick for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says the State Department is going to "have a whole division" dedicated to battling "anti-Semitism on the internet" and pushing social media to do "better on algorithms." Tech leaders, "many of whom are Jewish," have already "offered their assistance," he says. "The [Office of the Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism] is going to be revamped entirely to be one of the highest-profile offices in the State Department because that's what the [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] wants and that's what the President wants." 🧃🔗 #nevent1q…zy86 npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ “We have many persecutors, both visible and invisible: Impure spirits are pursuing us, as do the heretics, the pagans, and the Jews. All those who want to live piously are constantly under the pressure of persecutions, so much so that one who is zealous for piety can hardly find a moment free from persecution. And perhaps, one can even conclude that when we do not suffer persecutions, it is probably because we are not living piously enough. For if the saying is true that, All who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer prosecution (II Tim 3:12)- then the converse is true: that he who suffers no persecution has not yet burn to live truly, piously, in Christ Jesus.” Saint Ambrose, quoted in Psalm 118: A Commentary by St. Theophan the Recluse, pg. 208-209. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ From Michael Stefan over at substack: I think Christians should make a concerted effort to reframe Hanukkah as a Christian holiday about Jesus. I mean it’s the commemoration of the Maccabean Uprising, and that’s in the Bible (Books Of Maccabees) so why not? If Irving Berlin can write Christmas songs devoid of Jesus and boast about it, two can play that game. Some of the more noble among the Jews might become interested in Christianity that way, and some of the more villainous will scream in agony. Two birds with one stone. npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ GM https://blossom.primal.net/7554e13714bba4ec4ddace8485d7c37c25928889f8a1debac341d1a346f38866.jpg npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Like all philosophy, stoicism reaches it's fulfillment in Christianity. Read the Cappadocians ☦️ npub18zqmath26txwfhc70af8axk7pftjre9x7cf0lxkg92nvj2cpfgts8va790 Lew☦️ Christian history is so incredible and much of it is lost here in the watered down west. At First Ecumenical Council in 325, Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker (Dec 12) disputed with a Greek philosopher who was defending Arianism. “Listen, philosopher, to what I tell you. There is one God Who created man from dust. He has ordered all things, both visible and invisible, by His Word and His Spirit. The Word is the Son of God, Who came down upon the earth on account of our sins. […] We believe that He is one in essence (consubstantial) with the Father, and equal to Him in authority and honor. We believe this without any sly rationalizations, for it is impossible to grasp this mystery by human reason.” After his conversation with St. Spyridon, the philosopher turned to his companions and said, “Until now my rivals have presented their arguments, and I was able to refute their proofs with other proofs. But instead of proofs from reason, the words of this Elder are filled with some sort of special power, and no one can refute them…” https://blossom.primal.net/de007400e04a511c2344674d816f31f0ce33004e0f36e637483e950db525f730.jpg