Sunday of the Paralytic
The Gospel According to John 5:1-15

At that time, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water; whoever stepped in first after the troubling of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.

Now that day was the sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet." But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.' "They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

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Мировой лидер православных церквей осудил Путина и РПЦ за развязанную в Украине захватническую войну.
В статье говорится о коррупционной системе РПЦ в лице патриарха Кирилла, кто проповедует не Библию и любовь к ближгнему, а убийства невинных людей в братской Украине..Какой позор! вся сущность и мерзость коррупционной российской системы обнажилась. Не страна, а большая тюрьма с узаконенными паханами, головорезами и гангстерами.

Global Orthodox Church leader condemns Putin’s war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “earned the hatred of the whole world,” according to the leader of Orthodox Christianity, who rebuked the Russian leader for inflicting a devastating war......

“We are entering a new era of cold war,” Patriarch Bartholomew of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople said in a Turkish-language broadcast interview. “We do not know what will happen next. I hope this cold war period will last a short time. I hope World War 3 won’t break out.".....

“Mr. Putin should not have done this,” the religious leader emphasized. "I repeat, he has done himself and his country an injustice because he has provoked the hatred of the whole world.”....
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has offered moral legitimacy to those ambitions, even in the prayers for peace that he has offered in the days since the invasion began....
Kirill has been characterized as an “agent” of Russian intelligence services. His representatives in the United States, known as the “archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America,” lent credence to this view by promoting a recent op-ed by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. They highlighted Pompeo’s comment that "for Putin, the church is merely another tool of power.”....

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/global-orthodox-church-leader-condemns-putins-war-in-ukraine

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Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
The Gospel According to John 4:5-42


At that time, Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him.

Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him food?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard ourselves, and we know that this is indeed Christ the Savior of the world."

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"It is not commonly known that Charles Darwin and his father Erasmus Darwin were classicists, who were educated in the writings and philosophies of ancient Greece, especially. Evolution as we know it today was already articulated by Aeschylus and others by the third century BC. Modern materialism is merely a revival of Epicureanism."
-- Ken Griffith

"And before Epicureanism, there was the Atomism of Democritus. He saw everything in Universe as the outcome of the shocking of the atoms - the indivisible particles. His system was entirely materialistic as well deterministic. The interesting thing is that, as in modern deterministic thought, human freedom and moral responsibility was denied - since every human act, too, was the outcome of reactions of the atoms."
-- Damasceno Bispo Damasceno Ribeiro

"There is nothing new under the sun."
-- King Solomon

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Matthew 5:21
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old, ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ and ‘Whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.’
ASV
Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
AMP
“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever murders shall be guilty before the court.’
AMPC
You have heard that it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill, and whoever kills shall be liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the court.
BRG
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
CSB
“You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.
CEB
“You have heard that it was said to those who lived long ago, Don’t commit murder, and all who commit murder will be in danger of judgment.
CJB
“You have heard that our fathers were told, ‘Do not murder,’ and that anyone who commits murder will be subject to judgment.
CEV
You know our ancestors were told, “Do not murder” and “A murderer must be brought to trial.”
DARBY
Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.
DLNT
“You heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder’, and ‘Whoever murders shall be liable to the judgment’.

Dems & Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children

Yeah, yeah, squall about it all you want, but that’s exactly what the Democratic Party is, if you take seriously the Biden Administration’s newly released guidelines on health care for trans youth. Take a look:

https://russian-faith.com/news-trends/dems-biden-administration-promote-transgender-mutilation-children-n6768

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"You see, the reason Jesus wasn't the sort of king people had wanted in his own day is--to anticipate our conclusion--that he _was_ the true king, but they had become used to the ordinary, shabby, second-rate sort.
They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a new plan that would give them everything they needed, but within quite a new framework.
They were looking for a singer to sing the song they had been humming for a long time, but he was the composer, bringing them a new song to which the old songs they knew would form, at best, the background music. He was the king, all right, but he had come to redefine kingship itself around his own work, his own mission, his own fate." (Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright, p. 5)
H/T Fr Gregory Roy Jensen

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The Chosen смотрели?

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Today's Reading

The Gospel According to John 17:1-13

At that time, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do; and now, Father, you glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made.

"I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you did send me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are mine; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."

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