Karl Marx's body is in his grave, London.
Nietzsche's body is in his grave, Lützen.
Muhammad's body is in his grave, Medina.
Buddha's body is in his grave, Pingliang.
But, if you travel to Christ's grave in Jerusalem, it's empty, & has been for 2,000 years.

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!

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Pascha in Dachau, May 6th, 1945, just after the camp's liberation by the Allies:
The liberation of the Nazi Dachau concentration camp took place, momentously, during the days of Orthodox Holy Week in 1945.
Among the prisoners who had been held in Dachau were Orthodox priests, deacons and even monks from Mount Athos. But there were no vestments, no books, no icons, no candles, no prosphoras, no wine. Efforts to acquire all these items from the Russian parish in Munich failed, as the Americans (who were occupying that part of Germany) could not locate anyone from that parish in the devastated city.
Nevertheless, some of the problems could be solved. The approximately 400 Catholic priests detained in Dachau had been allowed to remain together in one barrack and say mass every morning before going to work. They offered us Orthodox the use of their prayer room in Block 26. The chapel was bare, save for a wooden table and an icon of the Theotokos hanging above the table.
A creative solution to the problem of the vestments was also found. New linen towels were taken from the hospital of our former SS-guards. When sewn together lengthwise, two towels formed an epitrachilion (stole) and when sewn together at the ends they became an orarion. Red crosses, originally intended to be worn by the medical personnel of the SS-guards, were put on the towel-vestments.
On Easter Sunday, May 6, Serbs, Greeks and Russians gathered at the Catholic priests' barracks... In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon wore the make-shift vestments over their blue and gray-striped prisoners uniforms. Then they began to chant, changing from Greek to Slavonic, then back to Greek. The Easter Canon, the Easter Sticheras – everything was recited from memory. The Gospel – "In the beginning was the Word" – also from memory. The Homily of St. John Chrysostom also from memory. A young Greek monk from the Holy Mountain stood up in front of us and recited it with such infectious enthusiasm that we shall never forget him as long as we live. St. John Chrysostom himself seemed to speak through him to us and to the rest of the world as well!
Eighteen Orthodox priests and a deacon, most of them Serbs, participated in this unforgettable service. Like the sick man who had been lowered through the roof of a house and placed in front of the feet of Christ the Savior, the Greek Archimandrite Meletios was carried on a stretcher into the chapel, where he remained prostrate throughout the service.
The priests who participated in the 1945 Dachau Easter service are commemorated at every Divine Service held in the Dachau Russian Orthodox Memorial Chapel, along with all Orthodox Christians who lost their lives "at this place, or at another place of torture."
Within the Dachau Resurrection Chapel is a large icon depicting angels opening the gates of the Dachau concentration camp and Christ Himself leading the prisoners to freedom.
(Adapted from an article in "In Communion")

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May God pour down His grace to grant a blessed Mother’s Day to all of our mothers; grandmothers; God-mothers; and spiritual mothers who self-sacrificially offer yourselves to others in so many ways that lead us to our Lord and bear Him forth into the world. You are truly life-giving and we love you!

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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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