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People trying to lead the spiritual life have the most subtle and most difficult war through their thoughts: every moment of life is a spiritual war. - St. John of Kronstadt

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Nativity of Christ icon by Marcos Campanis, a fresco on a stone in the Mount Sinai area

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Победна песма

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Nuestra Señora del Milagro [Tunja - Boyacá - Colombia]

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The Belt of the Mother of God from Vatopaidi Monastery on Mount Athos was brought for veneration to the city of Karditsa, Greece, on May 11, 2025. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency

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stolen from larissa kirillina on flickr, old wooden church 1756 :3

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Saint Nicholas Church in Eklutna

she’s one of the oldest if not the oldest building in Anchorage, Alaska and she’s just a tiny church in a cemetery hidden away <3

from j_t_d on flickr & ?

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Entrance to the Archangel Michael Monastery in Prilep.

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"But nothing causes such exceeding grief as when anyone, lying under the captivity of sin, calls to mind from where he has fallen, because he turned aside to carnal and earthly things, instead of directing his mind in the beautiful ways of the knowledge of God. So you find Adam concealing himself, when he knew that God was present and wishing to be hidden when called by God with that voice which wounded the soul of him yourself? Why are you concealed? Why do you avoid Him Whom you once longed to see? A guilty conscience is so burdensome that it punishes itself without a judge, and wishes for covering, and yet is bare before God."

+ St. Ambrose