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[orthodoxadventure]

You showed no mercy; it will not be shown to you. You opened not your house; you will be expelled from the Kingdom. You gave not your bread; you will not receive eternal life.

Saint Basil the Great; Sermon to the Rich

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[guiltywisdom]

The Nine Angelic Orders, a prayer of Saint Basil the Great from “Death to the World” (Issue 6, Page 16) an Eastern Orthodox Zine created by ex-punks turned monks.

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[wastehound-voof]

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. –

Saint Basil the Great

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[apenitentialprayer]

This is the definition of sin: the misuse of powers given us by God for doing good, a use contrary to God's commandments, On the other hand, the virtue that God asks of us is the use of the same powers based on a good conscience in accordance with God's command.

Saint Basil the Great (The Rule, Reply to Question 2, §7)

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[mothermarysprotection]

Saints Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen & Mass Readings and Reflectio...

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[daily-praise]

Today’s Reflection:

Today we are presented with a mystery, but remember not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Yet, this is what the religious leaders are trying to do with the identity of John, that somehow in knowing his identity a truth will be known. However, for them, it will never be known, because their focus is not on what will bring them to the truth; which is the message of John who preached repentance, something we ought to remember. Today we remember saints Basil and Gregory who were wonderful pastors and doctors of the Church. Yet, their message, like John, is more important, for through their efforts, and with the Holy Spirit, they rebuilt the faith among believers and even us today, and for this we move closer to the truth of the gospel.

Today’s Spiritual Links for January 02, 2024

National Eucharistic Review Today’s Mas Readings Today’s Reflection Rosary Liturgy of the Hours New American Bible Non-Scriptural Reading Prime Matters

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[peoplefromheaven]

“Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life”.

-Saint Basil The Great

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[eelhound]

"Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase…

'I am wronging no one,' you say, 'I am merely holding on to what is mine.' What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.

Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? [Job 1] So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say 'from nowhere,' you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say 'from God,' then explain why it was given to you.

When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not.

If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor.

Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love." - Saint Basil the Great, as quoted by Charles Avila from Ownership: Early Christian Teaching, 1983.

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[portraitsofsaints]

Lent 2024

“True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred, & banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betraying one’s vows.

-St. Basil the Great

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[dramoor]

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[orthodoxadventure]

Our reasoning brain is weak, and our tongue is weaker still. It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind.

-- Saint Basil the Great

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[guiltywisdom]

“But on the other hand we shall receive gladly those passages in which they praise virtue or condemn vice. For just as bees know how to extract honey from flowers, which to men are agreeable only for their fragrance and color, even so here also those who look for something more than pleasure and enjoyment in such writers may derive profit for their souls. Now, then, altogether after the manner of bees must we use these writings, for the bees do not visit all the flowers without discrimination, nor indeed do they seek to carry away entire those upon which they light, but rather, having taken so much as is adapted to their needs, they let the rest go. So we, if wise, shall take from heathen books whatever befits us and is allied to the truth, and shall pass over the rest. And just as in culling roses we avoid the thorns, from such writings as these we will gather everything useful, and guard against the noxious. So, from the very beginning, we must examine each of their teachings, to harmonize it with our ultimate purpose, according to the Doric proverb, 'testing each stone by the measuring-line.”

Saint Basil of Caesarea

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[catholic-saint-tournament]

About St Basil the Great

About St Anthony of Padua

Losers' Bracket Round 1

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (January 2)

St. Basil, one of the most distinguished Doctors of the Church and Bishop of Caesarea, was likely born in 329 and died on 1 January 379.

He ranks after Athanasius as a defender of the Oriental Church against the heresies of the fourth century, especially Arianism, which denied the divine nature of Jesus Christ. 

He was a strong supporter of the Nicene Creed.

With his friend, Gregory of Nazianzus and his brother, Gregory of Nyssa, he is part of the trio known as "The Three Cappadocians," of which he was the most important in practical genius and theological writings.

Basil resisted the pressure from Emperor Valens, an Arian himself, who wanted to keep him in silence and admit the heretics to communion. 

No wonder, when the great St. Athanasius died, the responsibility of being the defender of the faith against Aryanism fell upon Basil.

Seventy-two years after his death, the Council of Chalcedon described him as “the great Basil, minister of grace who has expounded the truth to the whole earth.”

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