#pimen

[beatricecenci]

Pimen Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865)

Italian Woman at the Balcony during the Carnival

[history-of-fashion]

1839 Pimen Orlov - Woman in lilac dress

(Penza Regional Picture Gallery named after K.A. Savitskiy)

[religious-extremist]

The nature of water is soft, that of stone is hard; but if a bottle is hung above a stone, allowing the water to fall drop by drop, it wears away the stone. So it is with the Word of God; it is soft and our heart is hard, but the man who hears the word of God often, opens his heart to the heart of God.

+ St. Poemen the Great, 5th century

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865) Group portrait of the sisters: writer Countess Elizaveta Vasilievna Salias de Tournemire, artist Sofia Vasilievna Sukhovo-Kobylina and Evdokia Vasilievna Petrovo-Solovo, 1847 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

[7pleiades7]

Roman Carnival: the Feast of the “Moccoletti” (1859), (detail), by Pimen Nikitich Orlov (1812-1863), oil on canvas, 90 × 110 cm, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

[orthodoxadventure]

"A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others, he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent, that is, he says nothing that is not profitable." ~ Abba Pimen

[me-ajude]

Latest submissions, everything drawn in a big rush, TIME FOR CONSISTENCY TRAINING

[atitudini]

Părintele Pimen Vlad la mănăstirea Paltin - despre rânduieli canonice și mai puțin canonice ale Sf. Împărtășanii

Ascultați pe Părintele Pimen Vlad, într-un dialog cu maicile de la mănăstirea Paltin, explicând pe înțelesul tuturor învățătura patristică a rânduielii Sfintei Împărtășanii, care reflectă și tradiția întregului Munte Athos. Care sunt canoanele opritoare la împărtășanie și cât de des ne putem împărtăși?

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Monday, March 4, 2024

february 20_march 4

Week of the prodigal son

ABBOT MACARIUS AND 34 MONKS AND NOVICES OF VALAAM MONASTERY MARTYRED BY THE LUTHERANS

In Memoriam: hieromonk Titus, schemamonk Tikhon, monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Silvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Simonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion, and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John (1578).

ST. BESSARION THE GREAT, WONDERWORKER OF EGYPT (466)

Saint Bessarion, Wonderworker of Egypt was an Egyptian. He was baptized while still in his youth, and he led a strict life, striving to preserve the grace given him during Baptism. Seeking to become more closely acquainted with the monastic life, he journeyed to the holy places. He was in Jerusalem, he visited Saint Gerasimus (March 4) in the Jordanian wilderness, he viewed other desert monasteries, and assimilated all the rules of monastic life.

Upon his return, he received monastic tonsure and became a disciple of Saint Isidore of Pelusium (February 4). Saint Bessarion took a vow of silence, and partook of food only once a week. Sometimes he remained without food or drink for forty days. Once, the saint stood motionless for forty days and forty nights without food or sleep, immersed in prayer.

Saint Bessarion received from God the gift of wonderworking. When his disciple was very thirsty, he sweetened bitter water. By his prayer the Lord sent rain upon the earth, and he could cross a river as if on dry land. With a single word he cast out devils, but he did this privately to avoid glory.

His humility was so great that once, when a priest ordered someone from the skete to leave church for having fallen into sin, Bessarion also went with him saying, “I am a sinner, too.” Saint Bessarion slept only while standing or sitting. A large portion of his life was spent under the open sky in prayerful solitude. He peacefully departed to the Lord in his old age.

1 JOHN 2:18-3:10

18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that He has promised us-eternal life. 26These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. 28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

MARK 11:1-11

1 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples; 2 and He said to them, "Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it. 3 And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it,' and immediately he will send it here. 4 So they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it. 5 But some of those who stood there said to them, "What are you doing, loosing the colt?" 6 And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go. 7 Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it. 8 And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:"Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' 10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" 11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.

[hieromonkcharbel]

Abba Pimen says that prayer is the most difficult of all virtues to acquire. It is in prayer that we touch God, that with our mind we are united to God. This is our direct contact with God, our communication with Him. The devil hates this and it is at this time more than any other time that he fights against us. In prayer we must struggle to keep our minds pure and clear from all distractions and totally concentrated on God and immersed in Him.

~Elder Ephraim

[theblogdiana]

Dar Dumnezeu e bun cu noi

Să ne ridice din gunoi

E bun și milostiv, El este

Și-aceasta nu e doar poveste

El poate ca din rău să facă bun

Și din prăpastie să facă drum

El poate ca și-n viața mea

S-aprindă-o luminiță sau o stea.

- Părintele Pimen Vlad

[beatricecenci]

Pimen Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865)

Neapolitan Woman

[chutzpahhooplah]

My father is feeling his mortality again and is starting to divvy off his personal belongings (((: On the very minor plus side, he's giving me the cross he got when he was a priest from Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow

[shimyereh]

One final tale, and then my work is done;      The midnight lamp burns low. What frantic motion Consumed the past! How richly it would run      In waves on reckless waves — a seething ocean Of faces, names, events. Now almost none      Remain, except a swiftly-fading notion Of something lost. Before all memories fail, There’s time enough to tell one final tale.

[Loosely adapted from part of Pimen’s first monologue in Pushkin’s Boris Godunov.]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pimen Orlov (Russian, 1812-1865) Portrait of the Lady-in-Waiting Anna Okulova (1794-1861), 1837 The State Hermitage Museum

Anna Alexeyevna Okulova (1794–1861) was born into an old Muscovite family, the eldest of five daughters of Alexei Matveyevich Okulov and his wife Praskovya Semionovna. With the support of Nicholas I, in 1836 she was given the post of tutoress to his daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna, and appointed a maid-of-honour. On 26 August 1837, Anna Alexeyevna was granted the title maid of the bedchamber. After Olga Nikolayevna married in 1846, Anna Alexeyevna was awarded the Order of St Catherine Small Cross. She lived out her days as a maid-of-honour in the Winter Palace.

She is depicted here wearing a blue maid-of-honour’s dress with silver embroidery as was appropriate for a tutoress of one of the grand duchesses.

[divine-regret-index-j]

The intermittent months and months of radio silence at a given time regarding progress on 東方虚舟 ~ Sapphic Starseas Abyss reflects one of my longest-held design theses.

Any work in most mediums takes a thousand talents smaller teams have to all brandish and large teams have to all coordinate; project and team management, audio / visual interface / effect coordination, dialoguework, motifwork, creature / costume / set design, narrative / exposition / scene / difficulty pacing and overhead, worldbuilding, copy-editing, budgeting, promotion, ad infinitum, forevermore. (Of course, mediums that don't express as many put higher burden on what remains.) Smaller groups take unconscious shortcuts and larger groups make vanilla compromises on weaker areas and budget-restrained aspects to get anything out at all under such weight, which contributes just as much as ambient pop culture does in producing generic slush. Straight-faced clichés of western fantasy settings, lacking options in character representation, cough, how many other deckbuilders on Steam use unaltered monochromatic Rexard and Poneti icons, cough cough, all the roguelikes with two or less songs while thousands of options have CC-BY licenses on Bandcamp, etcetera. The consequences of not using such have their own immense burdens; I've spent three years learning GIMP and G'MIC-Qt simply because I wanted my roguelike to not be 16-bit or otherwise be full of fuzzy abstract programmer art. My lack of restraint here thus meant working up and down the creative commons for thousands of needed assets, for UI bits and enemies and obstacles and status effects and other effects and card art and manifold collectible boosts. So it goes. The part where everything hasn't come together yet playability-wise further obscures this endless toil. It's hard for posting about games to spread without character melodrama or hot bodies or reflection and anecdotes, so all of these random contextless aesthetic + system samplings rarely stick.

...Having said all that, have some contextless vfx gifs from the hundreds I've worked away on. Gotta work with this aforementioned state of mostly being Aesthetic. Most of such are derived from the offerings of CuteStockFootage, KotatsuAkira, and pimen, if severely distorted in the fuzzy darkness that readily binds disparate sources together. (More works should really learn to do that.)