{"id":2412,"date":"2019-08-27T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2019-08-27T22:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:58:23","slug":"let-us-be-happy-that-we-belong-to-the-holy-orthodox-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Let us be happy that we belong to the Holy Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201d . . . when the Church tells us in her hymns\nand icons that the Apost\u00adles were mira\u00adculously gat\u00adhe\u00adred from the ends of the\nearth in order to be pre\u00adsent at the repose and burial of the Mot\u00adher of God,\nwe as Ort\u00adho\u00addox Chri\u00adsti\u00adans are not free to deny this or rein\u00adter\u00adpret it,\nbut must believe as the Church hands it down to us, with sim\u00adpli\u00adcity\nof heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. John Maximovich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet us be happy, beloved brothers and sisters that we belong to the Holy Orthodox Church, worthily and rightly glorifying the Most Holy Sovereign Theotokos on this eminent day out of all the days of the year with special solemnity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

There exists on earth many societies and entire governments that do not consider the need nor the obligation to call upon and glorify the Queen of heaven and earth, the Mother of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ, and other saints and angels; to submissively serve Her lovingly, as the true Mother of God. Sadly in Russia nowadays we have heretics (among us) who actively dishonor the Mother of God, the saints, their icons, their relics and their festivals. O, if only they also unanimously with us glorified the worthy Queen of heaven and earth!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 St. John of Kronstadt, Sermon on the Dormition of the Theotokos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Most Holy\nMother of God prays for us ceaselessly. She is always visiting us. Whenever we\nturn to her in our heart, she is there. After the Lord, she is the greatest\nprotection for mankind. How many churches there are in the world that are\ndedicated to the Most Holy Mother of God! How many healing springs where people\nare cured of their ailments have sprung up in places where the Most Holy\nTheotokos appeared and blessed those springs to heal both the sick and the\nhealthy! She is constantly, by our side, and all too often we forget her.\u201d\n\n+ Elder Thaddeus, Homily on the Dormition of the\nTheotokos \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201d . . . when the Church tells us in her hymns and icons that the Apost\u00adles were mira\u00adculously gat\u00adhe\u00adred from the ends of the earth in order to be pre\u00adsent at the repose and burial of the Mot\u00adher of God, we as Ort\u00adho\u00addox Chri\u00adsti\u00adans are not free to deny this or rein\u00adter\u00adpret it, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-fathers-wisdom","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t