An ascetic urban hermit

abba anthoney

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 13:42:00 +0000

The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, 1866 - Gustave Dore

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:48:00 +0000

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

A street in Constantinople by Raph Herrera Lomotan

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:29:00 +0000

lord Jesus Christ son of God have mercy on me a sinner

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:39:00 +0000

The monks of the west - volume1 - Montalembert

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:57:00 +0000

Macrina the Younger

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:39:00 +0000

School of athens

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 12:04:00 +0000

Blessed are they that appreciate the lords creation

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:01:00 +0000

Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering. Luke 14:5

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0000

Confession

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 09:55:00 +0000

Chrysostom

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:39:00 +0000

Some days are made to pray

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 10:43:00 +0000

worldly items

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 10:15:00 +0000

When something is new it is perceived as great and cherished, after a month it gets old and discarded, the initial beauty is no more. It ends up in a drawer cluttered with junk, monuments of the money you've wasted in your life. Cherish what lasts and do not chase after worldly items

the ear

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 13:19:00 +0000

Does the ear not test words as the palate tastes food

When Mr Goose flys in from Egypt 🇪🇬 for breakfast at 5 am

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:48:00 +0000

Abraham

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:35:00 +0000

lord jesus christ have mercy on us sinners

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:32:00 +0000

Spiritual Discussion ... Father Lazarus, With Bishop Thomas

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:50:00 +0000

Desert Foreigners documentary film - Father Lazarus Alantony

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:46:00 +0000

Silence

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:41:00 +0000

"He who loves conversation with Christ loves to be alone. He who loves to be in the company of many is a friend of this world. If you love repentance, then love silence, for without silence there is no perfect repentance."

+ St. Isaac the Syrian, of Nineveh (AD 613-700)

the life of basil

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:09:00 +0000

pray and repent daily

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:54:00 +0000

Beg for mercy for we are all sinners

Pray for the suffering and sick

Beg forgiveness and sin no more

Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:27:00 +0000

The former atheist Frenchwoman and Saint Porphyrios.

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:50:00 +0000

The former atheist Frenchwoman and Saint Porphyrios.

A French historian, atheist and nihilist visited Elder Porphyrios at his Hermitage in Milesi, Attica. She did not expect, being a University Professor to learn anything great from a 2nd Grade graduate, but for the sake of her friends she agreed to go.

The Elder asked the two of them to talk without the presence of others or an interpreter, which caused the question of her friends who knew that the Frenchwoman did not speak Greek at all, nor did the Elder speak French.

The theological and existential discussion finally took place with the two of them alone, for quite some time. 

The door opened and the atheist woman came out in tears, tears of repentance. When her friends asked her how she got along with the Elder, she replied:

"But he speaks fluent French." 

The same happened with a German Doctor, with a Serb, with a Romanian, with an Irishman.

When his spiritual children asked him how he knew foreign languages ​​while he was never taught them, he replied:

 "I speak to them in Greek and the Holy Spirit interprets them in their minds and hearts"

This is the New Language of the Holy Spirit that Christ promised to His Disciples, the language of Paradise which was confused by pride in the Tower of Babel and from Pentecost returned by the Holy Spirit through the Church to All Saints of times.

With Saint Paisios too we have many such examples and with Russian Saints too.

 The Holy Spirit, the Heavenly Fire with which the Fire of the Altar once lit on the Day of Pentecost is always in the Church and has been burning for twenty centuries now. It was never erased by human weaknesses and mistakes.

 "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever ".

Every other "new fire of spirit" which is advertised nowadays with characteristic conceit and arrogance as being authentic, genuine and unique on earth by heretics is foreign "Alien Fire and not Divine".

In the photo is the atheist French historian, Monk  Magdalene in the Sinai desert, where she practiced asceticism afterwards, alone for 18 years in very difficult conditions, having renounced wealth, career, fame and useless philosophies of life. 

She slept there in the Lord on 12 Dec 2013.

Saint Jerome confessor, doctor of the church - 342-420

noreply@blogger.com (Abraham) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:39:00 +0000

who paint their cheeks with rouge and their eyelids with antimony, with, whose plastered faces, to white for human beings, look like idols

he opened a free school there, should Mary and joseph decide to return to Bethlehem they would have a place to stay

He told Paula after her daughters death, she now prays to the lord for you, and obtains for me the pardon of my sins

in the sixteenth century the great council of tent pronounced Jerome's vulgate the authentic authoritive Latin text of the catholic church