Saturday, 8 February 2020

avarice

https://asceticexperience.com/portfolio/avarice-a-lack-of-faith/

God is the judge

God is the judge of your soul which lasts for eternity, therefore our efforts of this world are to please God

progress

In life we should progress towards God without hesitation, fear or reluctance

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Cast away

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

Matthew 16:24-26

²⁴Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵For whoever would save his life^[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Saturday, 23 November 2019

Jesus Prayer

"The Island" is a 2006 Russian biographical film about a 20th century Eastern Orthodox monk. Pyotr Mamonov, who plays the lead character, formerly a rock musician in the USSR, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 1990s and lives now in an isolated village. Film director Pavel Lungin said about him that "to a large extent, he played himself." Mamonov was first very hesitant to play in the film, but then was urged by his confessor to play the character. After the filming, one of the movie crew staff decided to stay on the island and live there as a hermit.