Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs, bestowing life!
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Плащаница, Viktor Vasnetsov
Santo Sudario de Cristo
ralsie had to have had a family, right?
Long schnoz
Nobody asked but here’s more dog images
Last one isn’t a close up but it’s silly
I saw some people in the notes of my previous post asking what dog breed this is and to answer that this is a Borzoi or a Russian Wolfhound!!
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weevils are like the insect equivalent of those silly looking long snout dogs.they’re so silly
did yall know there were more
Can you explain what Theosis is? I have heard this term but I am RC so I don’t think I’ve been taught that before.
Theosis is literally translated as "deification," and is best summarized by a quote from Saint Athanasius the Great
God became human, so that we might become god.
This is not to say humans become actual "Gods," replace Him, or anything of the sort; there is a reason the quote ends with a lower case "god." As Saint Maximos the Confessor puts it, it is "total participation in Jesus Christ," resulting in becoming "All that God is, except for an identity in being, one becomes when one is deified by grace.”
This goes into the distinction between God's essence and energies; we cannot know God's essence, can never participate in it, and as such cannot ever hope to be God in essence. It is transcendant and beyond anything created, and to participate in it would abolish the distinction between God and man. But we can know God's energies, primarily His Grace. It is by participation in His Grace that brings us deification, makes us like God. It is truly becoming His image and likeness.
Theosis was given to humanity through Christ's Incarnation. Where Adam and Eve marred the image of God, Christ not only restored the image, but gave it it's full potential.
So it a fundamental part of the Orthodox understanding of salvation, a process of deification to complete communion with God.
I hope this is clear, and please ask if you have further questions.
Elder Ephraim and his monks
Harrowing of hell
- Viktor Vasnetov
I love Viktor Vasnetsov’s illustrations
Viktor Vasnetsov - Cherubim sketches for the cathedral in Kiev - 1893
You can try to hex Putin but the post-soviet psychotics division will stop you at the border and feed your soul projection to one of those Orthodox monks that lives in a cave and hasn't talked to a person since 1976
Abbott Tryphon appreciation post