In 2018, The Voice of the Martyrs released the award-winning film Tortured for Christ, a dramatic retelling of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand's 14-year imprisonment because of his comments that Christianity and Communism cannot coexist -- those idiotic bumper stickers notwithstanding. The flick is filmed entirely on location in Romania, including from the prison where the good pastor suffered … Continue reading FREE Christian Movie
The power of God is most effective when the person asking for his help, acknowledges his own inadequacy, his personal weakness and realization that his sinful nature makes him proud and unyielding. It is this knowledge that is the cornerstones of Christian humility and the fundamental virtue of a believer.
St. Patriachus, Enlightener of Eire March 17 Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, came to Ireland where he found so much reknown, by force. He was seized from his native Britain by Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. He was the son of a deacon and a grandson of a priest, it was … Continue reading My name is Padraig, and I’m a sinner
The author, William R. W. Stephens, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated in 1862, ordained in 1865. his parentage and birth are unknown. Stephens began his clerical career with a curacy in Staines. In 1866 he became the curate of Purley, Berkshire. On 31 August 1869 he married Charlotte Jane Hook, the youngest daughter … Continue reading Saint John Chrysostom, his Life and Times by W. R. W. Stephens
Joel the ProphetReading from the Synaxarion:The Prophet Joel, whose name means "Yah is God," was of the tribe of Reuben, the son of Bathuel, and lived from 810 to 750 B.C. (but some say in the 7th century B.C.). His book is divided into three chapters, and is the second in order of the minor … Continue reading Prophet Joel October 19
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I could not find much about this saint other than he died in 628. He is also known as Anastasius of Persia & was a military commander in Asia Minor and Syria. After he was was tortured in Caesarea, he converted to Christianity, as he believed that the Holy Spirit had called upon him to forgive his … Continue reading Saint Anastasios the Persian / August 8
Today July 15, honours Saint Vladimir the Great’s, President Putin’s nameday, and so I leave you with this…..originally posted 7/15/2013 on inmyanguish.wordpress.com------------------------------------------------------------------In the Moscow compound of the Night Wolves, the Russian equivalent of the Hells Angels, ships’ conrods have been refashioned as crosses ten feet high. Broken plane parts have been bolted to truck engines … Continue reading Vladimir of Russia and the Nightwolves
ikon for Agia BerenikeAlso today, July 12 is the celebration for Veronica, (Berenike in Greek) who wiped Christ's face as He carried His cross towards Golgotha aka the Shroud of Turin. She is also known as thee woman who Christ cured of the issue of blood. (Luke 8:43) Traditionally she is identified as Herod the … Continue reading Saints: July 12th, Veronica and the Shroud of Turin
The memory of this Saint is actually celebrated on March 30, but he is celebrated today because his book, The Ladder of Divine Ascent. It was written by a great man exexperienced in all forms of the monastic polity about our our stepwise journey to Heaven: John Climacus.St John Climacus (τῆς Κλίμακος, “of the ladder”) … Continue reading saints: Sunday of St John of Climacus
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