🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 St.Tikhon of Zadonsk Timofey Savelyevich Sokolov (1724, Novgorod region –1783, Zadonskiy Nativity Virgin Monastery). Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer whom the Eastern Orthodox Church glorified (canonized) as a saint in 1861. He forbade corporal punishment of the clergy, cared about education,  opened many schools. The Church of Christ is a ship that saves us from the wrath of God and the terrible torrent of hell, and you are within it. Beware, then, of angering the Helmsman—Christ—lest you fall from this saving vessel and perish in the eternal flood of God’s wrath an

🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 The Reverend Father Serafim Seraphim Alexeivich Slobodskoy (September 11, 1912, Chernstovka, Penzen oblast - November 5, 1971, USA) a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the United States who is noted for preparation of catechetical works for the education of Orthodox youth, author of the textbook "The Law of God". Our lives must always be guided by the knowledge we acquire of the true faith and Christian piety. In order to make use of our piety and knowledge of the faith, it is necessary for each Christian to have the virtue of discernment, Christian good sense

🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross September 14/ September 27 O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.” (From the order of Great Compline) O cross! Be unto me the might, the strength and the power, the deliverer and foremost defender against my assailants, the shield and protector, my victory and establishment, ever preserving and sheltering me. O Cross … as a three-edged sword thou dost cut off the principles of darkness, being the great weapon of Christ and an invincibl