Petrine Prerogative

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The Keys To The Gates Of Heaven

Matthew 16:19

And I will give unto thee the keys to the kingdom of heaven:and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven;
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosen in heaven.

Trinity Sunday

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky,
that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...

Bhagavad Gita,
Eleventh Chapter, Twelfth Verse

The Power Of Prayer

Vox Populi, Vox Dei !

Elon And The Felon

Mark 15
⁶ Now, at that (Passover) feast, (the Roman governor of Judea) released unto (the Jews) one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. ⁷ And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

⁹ Pilate answered them, saying: Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews ? ¹⁰ For he knew that the chief priests had delivered (Christ) for envy. ¹¹ But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. ¹⁵ And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

Decency Has To Die,

For Indecency To Reign

Psalm 115:6

Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his saints.

Christmas Miracle

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Hope Dies Last

Democracy Dies In Darkness... At Its Own Hand !

They haven’t figured [out] that the women are smarter right now than the men,
so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years...

Donald Trump, South Carolina, July 21, 2015.

What Dreams May Come

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Sirach 34
¹ The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: and dreams lift up fools.
² Whoso regards dreams is like him that catches at a shadow, and follows after the wind.
³ The vision of dreams is but a reflection: the likeness of a face beholding itself.

⁴ Of an unclean thing, what can be cleansed ?
 and from that which is false, what truth can come ?
⁵ Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams are vain:
 and the heart fancies, as a woman's heart in travail.

⁶ If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set not thy heart upon them.
⁷ For dreams have deceived many, and they that put their trust in them have failed.
⁸ The law shall be found perfect without lies: and wisdom is perfection to a faithful mouth.

Friday The Thirteenth

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Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and
the earth shall move out of her place,
in the wrath of the Lord of hosts,
and in the day of his fierce anger.

The Czar Formerly Known As Prince

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world:
Now shall the prince of this world be cast out.


John 16

⁷ If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you;
⁸ And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,
 and of righteousness, and of judgment:

⁹ Of sin, because they believe not on me;
¹⁰ Of righteousness, because I go to my Father;
¹¹ Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

The Butler Did It !

The Silent Majority

Unlucky Numbers

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Shannon † Doherty

The icon of the dying star
Slowly climbs up heaven’s vault:
`T’was there before laid eyes upon;
Though we now see it, it’s long gone...

Mihai Eminescu, To The Star

Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

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On Hesychasm And Monasticism

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A Single Man, Practicing Stillness Of The Mind

Border Security: On The Walls We Build To Protect Ourselves

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My inquisitive, conservative readership, asking tough and deeply

uncomfortable questions, about fair, blonde, blue-eyed Ukrainians,

in light of illegal aliens abducting and attacking American citizens.

Deeply Uncomfortable Situations

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Having My Theological Credentials & Qualifications,

As An Orthodox Blogger & Apologist, Called Into Question

Republican Idols

God With US !

Exodus 15:3

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

Genesis 1:26~27

And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.

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Since leadership required killing people, why won't republicans arm Ukraine's leadership ?

I need ammunition, not a ride.

Vladimir Zelensky

From The Dnieper River, To The Black Sea, Ukraine Will Be Free !

Wherever the (Russian) sun doth shine,
there's always (s)laughter, and good red wine.

Hilaire Belloc

Orthodox Christianity: Mortally Wounding Its Opponents Since 363 AD

Saint Basil the Great, whose feast is celebrated on New Year's Day, once prayed before an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, upon which Saint Mercurius was depicted as a soldier holding a spear.

He asked God not to permit the emperor Julian the Apostate to return from his war against the Persians and resume his oppression of Christians. The image of the holy Great Martyr Mercurius, depicted on the icon beside the image of the Most Holy Theotokos, became invisible. It reappeared later with a bloodied spear.

At this very moment Julian the Apostate, on his Persian campaign, was wounded by the spear of an unknown soldier, who immediately disappeared. The mortally wounded Julian, as he lay dying, cried out, “Thou hast conquered, O Galilean !”

A Life In Ruins

Beauty Will Save The World




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On God's Involvement In The Big Bang

Hypothetically speaking, of course...

Prayer For Protection Against Invaders

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Amen.


Securing Ukraine's existence, and a future for its children.

Revelation
16:6 They have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

17:6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

18:24 In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Running Russia

...into the ground.

A Putrid Christmas, And A Rotten New Year !

Like a second Herod, Putin the Pious saw fit to brutally mock and viciously destroy an entire country, by drowning it in senseless bloodshed and unspeakable violence, smearing it with the stench of death and despair, defiling it with the dismembered and decomposing corpses of its defenseless women and innocent children, whose lost lives and shattered limbs, as globes and tinsel upon Christmas trees, now adorn its once beautiful landscape.

Prayer For The Ukraine

Arise, O Lord, and judge thine own cause ! Incline thine ears to our prayers !

For foxes have arisen, seeking to destroy the vineyard, whose winepress thou alone hast trod.
The wild boar from the forest seeketh to destroy it, and every wild beast feedeth upon it.

Pope Leo the Tenth, Exsurge, Domine

The One True Faith

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Saint Vladimir of the Ladder