Prostrations are good habit to get into for the weekdays (that includes Sunday night, but not Saturday night), To perform one, just stand, then kneel, then touch your hands and head to the floor, then go back to kneeling, then back to standing, and repeat the process . A good number to start with is thirty-three every night (Christ's age at the start of his ministry). For us sinners, the prostration has a lot of symbolic significance: it illustrates falling to sin, and rising up again with the power of God. A good prayer to use for prostrations is the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"), but you should say it slowly, from your heart (feel that viscerally when you say it), and mean it, don't just mindlessly repeat it. If you have an icon of the Savior or the Theotokos with the Savior, that's also useful, place it so it is level with your face when standing, and that way you can rise up to it. Meditate on the icon as you pray.
Saint James the Brother of the Lord, was said to have a forehead that resembled a camel's knee, so calloused was it with prostrations. But in all other ways he was so serene, he often seemed as if dead.
What is with the creepy uptick in anti-orthdoxyism? I like these generals when we have my brothers in here posting wisdom, but these jews and turks and (((atheists))) frighten me with their devilish ways and it makes me feel like why are we exposing our Church to these putrid things? It gives me a strange, panicked feeling.
Oliver White
Good day gentlemen
Ian Jones
The Devil's only afraid of the Orthodox Church
Xavier Hill
?? I haven't been on Sup Forums since the Zimmerman case, since when have there been Orthodox generals here?
Easton Rivera
is over there, you retard.
Carter James
The devil looks like picrelated.
Parker Foster
ghosts don't exist
Colton Mitchell
For a while now, but we also get harassed more heavily by atheists than anyone else.
Camden Harris
we've had one about once every 2 nights for several months now. Pol is now an orthodoxy pol. Check the archives.
Jayden Ramirez
>roaches against orthodoxy wow I didn't see it coming
Connor Edwards
ITT russians with American proxies
Bentley Hughes
>tips fez
Christopher Jackson
I want to masturbate but I can't even get off to porn anymore. Everything at /gif/ is boring to me. I can't take it
3. If you give in, then make the next Wednesday or Friday a day of no food whatsoever, and no drink save water. If fall again, then make both the next Wednesday and Friday days of no food at all, just water. Keep following this if you keep falling, eventually you will overcome.
This will definitely work if you apply it.
Jaxson Martin
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Adrian Adams
I've been fasting, brother. :)
Ian Butler
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Cameron Morris
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David Jackson
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Daniel Taylor
>your countrie doesn't have high level mages how do you explain you're self???
Daniel Moore
less than 1% of the US is orthodox. you are undoubtably 90%+ russian proxies
Grayson Jenkins
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Jace Johnson
>everyone whos orthodox is russian American education at its finest
Brayden Hernandez
I'm sure less than 1% are Nazis too, but they're pretty heavily represented on Sup Forums
Luis Jackson
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Nathaniel Morgan
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Jordan Hernandez
I am so scared to pick up my cross
Colton Murphy
Don't pull a Judas and let that stop you from repenting
Aaron Baker
>nazis CTR go home
Aiden Gomez
(((Nazis))) are pagan/atheist Jew-controlled opposition.
Tyler White
I want to pick it up but my body is weak
Thomas Thomas
Evil Jew begone.
Adam Allen
You both apparently missed the point
God never gives you more than he knows you are able to bear.
Daniel Cox
Can he take my lust away?
Henry Hill
He gives you the tools to subdue your lust. He almost surely won't just take it away completely for you right now, because it serves the purpose of making you spiritually stronger. Overcoming it is part of the cross needed to make you holy. With God's help, you can subdue and overcome your lust, and that will temper you, but you have to actually make the effort.
Angel Nelson
I am planning to go to Orthodox Church for the first time, by myself. There is a Serbian Orthodox Church near me. What should I do, how should I prepare to dress? Last time I went to church it was a southern Baptist Church.
Xavier Reyes
Am I supposed to use my lust for my wife or gf? Is that why it is there?
With God's help, I pray for marraige and a relationship soon to at least end this torment
Benjamin Bailey
I'd suggest dressing well, slacks and a dress shirt at least.
Lusting for your wife is fine. Lusting for your girlfriend is not.
Lucas Wood
Is hand holding and kissing a sin?
Jacob Myers
Is Jesus white? Can I be racist and Christian? I've been getting conflicting answers.
Anthony Ortiz
No, but kissing is no really appropriate on fast days, unless it's in a way you'd kiss your mother.
Sebastian Ward
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Xavier Fisher
Jesus was Jewish. Whether or not you classify that as white seems to vary.
What implications would your racism have on your actions?
Logan Gomez
H-H-Hand holding is not morally wrong @~@
I pray for a girlfriend soon for hand holding
Adrian Gutierrez
Jews have a lot of different appearances though. There are even Japanese Jews. How can I know what Christ looked like so I can know his race?
My racism would at most lead to ethnic cleansing, but preferably by peaceful means like sterilizing.
Jaxon Morgan
When I was in the States there was always at least one or two American ''church shopping'' at our Orthodox Church. We find it ridiculous to be honest.
Ethan Cooper
Who are you and why do you keep posting ???
Matthew Hughes
That is pretty racist and probably not Christ-like. I speak as a mixed asian with Indian genes in me. Just to be clear I am not dark skinned
Jacob Ortiz
Christ was a Levantine Jew.
Pic related is what Christ looked like (his face looks different on each side because one reflects him in judgement).
Sterilization of people, even voluntarily, is incompatible with Orthodoxy. As is ethnic cleansing.
Jack Garcia
This is an catholic board Leave or start obeying the papal state
Hunter Davis
That's because you're not actually Orthodox, just an ethnic LARP'er.
Nicholas Brooks
forgot pic
Hunter Turner
I wasn't trying to make a point. Just reminding people.
Brody Kelly
God is a Serb.
Levi Cox
hahah. Nah.
Nicholas Cruz
He's actually a Jew.
Adrian Baker
Jesus isnt god dumb cunt
Adrian Smith
God is not an Israelite. Don't you people know anything hahah.
