Please tell this story, and please do not give into despair. Fortunes change on a dime. Just as Judah was delivered from Sennacharib, Moscow was delivered from Napoleon, and the Russian church was delivered from the USSR, a sudden event could alter everything.
Fr. Seraphim Rose taught that Idi Amin was allowed to butcher the Christians of Uganda in order that Greek Orthodoxy would have fewer competing denominations. Today there are 100,000 orthodox in Uganda. St. Nikolai velimirovich taught that Marco Polo was not allowed to baptize Kublai Khan so that one day China would be Orthodox and not Latin. Look at the mass conversions to Orthodoxy Pope Francis and Vatican 2 has inspired.
This will make sense in hindsight. St Lazar was given 2 options at Kosovo. Worldly defeat and the preservation of his peoples Orthodoxy, or worldly victory and the apostasy of his people. God's perfect will is not a Baathist secular state, an Islamic Republic, nor a bought and paid for monarchy. Christianity is coming and will be proclaimed to the Arabs. May it be as in the days of Heraclius.
Fight on dear brother, and rest assured of my prayers for you. Were you baptized with the name Isaac? I would be honored to get you a commemoration. The demon of Accidie is strong, but Christ is much stronger. Please Dm me if you would like to talk. I hear great pain in your voice and it hurts me dearly.
Please tell this story, and please do not give into despair. Fortunes change on a dime. Just as Judah was delivered from Sennacharib, Moscow was delivered from Napoleon, and the Russian church was delivered from the USSR, a sudden event could alter everything.
Fr. Seraphim Rose taught that Idi Amin was allowed to butcher the Christians of Uganda in order that Greek Orthodoxy would have fewer competing denominations. Today there are 100,000 orthodox in Uganda. St. Nikolai velimirovich taught that Marco Polo was not allowed to baptize Kublai Khan so that one day China would be Orthodox and not Latin. Look at the mass conversions to Orthodoxy Pope Francis and Vatican 2 has inspired.
This will make sense in hindsight. St Lazar was given 2 options at Kosovo. Worldly defeat and the preservation of his peoples Orthodoxy, or worldly victory and the apostasy of his people. God's perfect will is not a Baathist secular state, an Islamic Republic, nor a bought and paid for monarchy. Christianity is coming and will be proclaimed to the Arabs. May it be as in the days of Heraclius.
Fight on dear brother, and rest assured of my prayers for you. Were you baptized with the name Isaac? I would be honored to get you a commemoration. The demon of Accidie is strong, but Christ is much stronger. Please Dm me if you would like to talk. I hear great pain in your voice and it hurts me dearly.