Elder Ephraim Of Arizona

 

When we obey God, He gives us all that He has.

God is Light, and he gives us light.

God is Paradise, and He gives us paradise. God is forgiveness, and He gives us forgiveness.

God is Life, and He gives us life.

God is eternal bliss, and He grants us eternal bliss—completely free.

Why should we fail to acquire all these good things? Why make ourselves miserable?

Nothing other than a little enlightenment and a small amount of effort to change our way of life is required to enter the highway that ends at the Golden Gate of the Heavenly Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is the heart of Christ. If our soul acquires the characteristics of the Heavenly Father, then as a child of God, it will freely enter into the heart of God, into a vast, endless, and inexpressible blessedness.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

forgive

 

God forgives and I forgive,

I remember you in prayer.

Charity and love manifest,

and forgive me for everything.

Vainglory

 

Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Athos) at the barn of the Holy Monastery of the Theotokos of Consolation in Lachute, Quebec (Canada)

 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 “If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”

Albigensian Crusade

 kill them all, God will reconize his own

Ethiopian Bible

 Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and complete bible on earth.

Written in Ge’ez an ancient language of Ethiopia, it’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains 81-88 books compared to 66. It includes the Book of ENOCH, Esdras, Buruch and all 3 Books of MACCABEE, and a host of others that was excommunicated from the KJV.

Lord jesus christ have mercy on me a sinner

 

Saint paul and saint antony

 

The book of martyrs

Neither a borrower or a lender be

 Borrow today and Beg tomorrow

The "Vinegar" Bible

John Baskett (1665–1742) attained the title of “printer to the King’s most excellent majesty” in 1709, but his publishing career turned for the worse when he issued this richly-engraved folio Bible in 1717. Quick to point out the Bible’s numerous misprints, Baskett’s competitors branded it “a Baskett-ful of Errors.” The edition’s more lasting nickname has been the “Vinegar Bible,” because the words “Parable of the Vinegar” appear at the top of the page containing Luke 20:9, Christ’s Parable of the Vineyard.

Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner

Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev)

 

On February 26, 1950, Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) of Boguchar (Bulgaria), an amazing clergyman and ascetic, a champion of purity of the Orthodox faith, fell asleep in the Lord. Born and educated in Russia, he found eternal rest in Bulgaria, the country where he served from 1921. As a theologian, he is known for his uncompromising stance against ecumenism, modernism, and the Sophianist heresy of Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov. Notably, the Bulgarians know of “Grandpa Vladyka Seraphim” not as a theologian, but more as an ascetic of piety and saint whom God bestowed with the abundant grace of performing miracles. School children and students come to “Dedushka’s” tomb at the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Sofia asking for good grades at exams; cancer patients ask for healing; and those who are in sorrow or sadness flock to him in hope of receiving consolation.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Time is continually passing; it is decreasing more and more. Every day that passes is another step toward death. We should know that even one tear of repentance is equivalent to a spiritual bath. Just as the body feels refreshed when it bathes, and just as clothes become clean when they are washed, similarly, the tears of a repentant soul purify the heart, purify the mind, purify the body, purify life, purify speech, and purify a person’s every action.

Let us kneel and pray with extreme humility! Every repentant soul is given words: it is granted enlightened prayer.