10 ways to save our souls

10 basic things that are required for our salvation. 10 as many as the fingers of our two hands. The first, the most basic of all, is humility. Let us be humble people, not selfish, not proud. Humility is the soil on which all virtues thrive. After the experience of faith, we need correct faith, proper faith, and, together with faith, confession of faith. Third, hope that we do not despair of the difficulties of life, of the problems, of the dramas. If God had died, then we would have to believe. God does not die. God sees, watches with affection, and when we call upon him and struggle, He gives the solution. Humility, faith, hope, love. Love is the supreme virtue. If humility is the base, love is the summit, the queen of virtues, the sum of all virtues. God is love, and the man who wants to be a man of God and be saved must have love. Sorry for interrupting. Evangelical love, let's talk about the kimassoni in the I got love, we will develop the topics. Not because we don't have time, just like that, as a point of reference, not ekfisma love, worldly love and the vile people, because they are too in the pyramid in the The pyramid of the pyramid has the cornerstone, that is, in the pyramid always love, but worldly love, pathos love, we are talking about evangelical love, Christ preached a new love, an empty commandment, two-fold, us, or love as I have loved us, I give you a new commandment of love. Where does the new element come from? You will love as I loved Christ, purely and without self-interest. Yes, even your enemies, and you will love to the point of sacrifice and self-sacrifice. This is Christian love. The rest are vague words that we hear on the radio, on television. I love you, I love you, I love you, I adore you. All the vile people talk about love, but they mean an intoxicated love. And the lustful loves and homosexuality are still presented as love and as the kiss of angels. Not such a sportive love, but pure Christian selfless love. Yes. Well, love is the highest of virtues, the queen of virtues. How many virtues have I mentioned so far? Four. Humility, faith, hope, love. Four. The word of God is also necessary for us to be saved. That is, the Holy Bible, to read the Bible. To read other spiritual books that interpret scripture and to love preaching, Orthodox preaching. Scripture, the word of God. We said five. Indeed. Prayer is a necessary condition of salvation. Church attendance, regular church attendance, Mr. Koutrombelis, not church attendance at Easter and Christmas. Regular church attendance. We will analyze these and prove that it is necessary to attend church regularly. How have we said it so far, you count 3 6, but we said three seven or the meanings, pay attention to the number and both. Both. Nice. To be precise. As much as I can. Below. Very nice. That's right. Also, repentance and confession to a spiritual father are needed. Confession is a sacrament of the church from the beginning. We are sinners. No one is sinless, and we must humble our egoism. To lay our egoism at the feet of a loving spiritual father, a priest, a representative of Christ. This is how Christ himself ordained it. As much as the rationality and egoism of people do not want to accept it, to humble ourselves to confess our sins to receive absolution. It is a sacrament of confession. Then the coming to the sacrament of divine communion. If you do not eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, said Christ, you have no life in yourselves. Whoever does not commune does not have a higher spiritual life. He has a lower life that even unbelievers and the ungodly have, and even animals have it. The higher life is shaken by divine communion. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. How many things have we said, nine, one, I don't know, maybe it's baptism, the 10th, count it well. Baptism is understood, you understand it, we are talking about Christians, in fact, about baptized people, what must we Christians do to be saved, and the last one is a struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle against the devil, against the world that sets a thousand traps, that provokes with a thousand provocations, with irregular provocations and against ourselves, because within we have the seeds of all evil, of all passions. It goes without saying that the same will. We have the flesh that is a beast. We have the sexual demon, Asmodeus. So, we have temptations from the devil, temptations from the world, and internal temptations from our corrupt nature. And we must fight, struggle, struggle, unyielding struggle, as a politician here from Patras, Makaritis, said, but he meant, but he meant, a political struggle. We are fighting a general struggle, a struggle to earn our bread honorably and a struggle to defeat the devil, the world with its attractions and its traps, and ourselves with our passions. Mr. Stropoule, if we do these 10 things, we will go to heaven with our tsarouchia. We will be given the opportunity in other programs to analyze these. Each of these requires the time of a program. Very right.

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Пятница, 5 июля 2013 г.

Вся правда о турках-киприотах

Когда Лала Мустафа-паша летом 1570 года высадился на побережье Ларнаки во главе османского флота с 180 тысячами воинов, на пристани не было ни одного турка, который бы его встречал.

Он высадился, продвигался вглубь острова и убивал каждого, кто не падал на колени, чтобы поклониться ему. Без особого сопротивления он достиг окрестностей Никосии и расположился лагерем в Ниссу и прилегающих районах, чтобы подготовить решающую атаку.

Венецианцы, которые в то время правили всем Кипром, ожидали вторжения — это был их худший кошмар. Они разрушали церкви, старые здания и лачуги и в спешке, всего за три года, возвели стены Никосии. Вернее, то, что успели построить, поскольку к моменту османского нападения была завершена лишь первая линия укреплений.

Город был приведён в состояние обороны, и планировалось возведение второго пояса стен, однако времени не хватило. Укрепления спроектировал Паоло Саворньяно — главный инженер венецианских фортификаций в их средиземноморских владениях. Это был тот же человек, который спроектировал укрепления Ираклиона на Крите и других городов.

Отклонение русла реки Педиэй и ров

В рамках проекта венецианцы изменили русло реки Педиэй и попытались наполнить ров водой, чтобы сделать штурм города ещё более трудным. Но времени было слишком мало: османская орда жаждала новых завоеваний и крови.

Бои были беспощадными. Повторяющиеся атаки исламских фанатиков отражались венецианскими пушками, а защитники более месяца сменяли друг друга на бастионах. В районе рва Байрактара — там, где сегодня стоит мечеть, — линия обороны была прорвана. Знаменосец сумел взобраться на стены и водрузить знамя.

Увидев это, орды из Анатолии ринулись в город, ударив в тыл героическим венецианским защитникам. Сам Байрактар был убит на месте, но ущерб уже был нанесён. Османы, жаждущие крови, насилия и грабежа, ворвались в Никосию. Порох у защитников закончился, и для аристократических семей города — и не только для них — настал конец.

Османские мечи работали без остановки. Конные и пешие захватчики с криками обезглавливали каждого, кто попадался им на пути.

Свидетельство английского путешественника

Особенно характерно свидетельство английского путешественника той эпохи, оказавшегося в ловушке в городе и пережившего резню:

«Служанка бежала вместе со своей госпожой по улице, пытаясь спрятаться, когда турецкий кинжал рассёк воздух и отсёк голову её госпожи, которая закрутилась в воздухе, словно мяч. Служанка остановилась, раскрыла фартук, подняла отрубленную голову и побежала с ней, пытаясь скрыться. Она не успела пройти и нескольких шагов, как османская ярость обезглавила и её. Ни служанок, ни рабынь, ни знатных женщин, ни молодых, ни стариков, ни маленьких детей не пощадили захватчики. Приказ был один: “Убить всех”».

Вместе с ними были казнены и местные греки Кипра, находившиеся на службе у венецианской знати. Большая часть греческого населения уцелела, как и некоторые венецианцы, бежавшие в горные районы и центральную часть острова. Иностранные источники настаивают, что улицы города окрасились в красный цвет от пролитой крови. По соотношению к численности населения эта резня считается более масштабной, чем падение Константинополя.

Ещё более страшные события последовали в Фамагусте — с казнью Маркантонио Брагадина и всей венецианской аристократии, несмотря на соглашение о сдаче города и их свободном отплытии на галерах.

5 Temmuz 2013, Cuma

Kıbrıslı Türkler Hakkındaki Tüm Gerçek

Lala Mustafa Paşa, 1570 yılının yazında Osmanlı donanmasının başında 180 bin askerle Larnaka kıyılarından Kıbrıs’a çıktığında, limanda onu karşılayan tek bir Türk bile yoktu.

Karaya çıktı, ilerledikçe diz çökmeyen ve kendisine boyun eğmeyen herkesi kılıçtan geçirdi. Lefkoşa’nın dış mahallelerine kolayca ulaştı ve nihai saldırısını planlamak üzere Nissou ve çevresinde ordugâh kurdu.

O dönemde Kıbrıs’ın tamamını yöneten Venedikliler, bu istilayı bekliyorlardı ve bu onların en büyük kâbusuydu. Kiliseleri, eski yapıları ve kulübeleri yıktılar ve sadece üç yıl içinde büyük bir hızla Lefkoşa surlarını inşa ettiler. Elbette yalnızca inşa etmeye yetişebildikleri kadarını; çünkü Osmanlı saldırısı başladığında sadece ilk savunma hattı tamamlanmıştı.

Şehri savunulabilir hâle getirdiler ve ikinci bir sur hattı inşa etmeyi planladılar, ancak buna zaman kalmadı. Tahkimatların tasarımı, Venediklilerin Akdeniz’deki tüm topraklarında görev yapan baş askeri mühendis Paolo Savorgnano’ya aitti. Aynı kişi Girit’teki Kandiye (Heraklion) surlarını da tasarlamıştı.

Pedieos Nehri’nin Yönünün Değiştirilmesi ve Hendek

Venedikliler, planlama kapsamında Pedieos Nehri’nin yatağını değiştirdiler ve mümkünse hendeği suyla doldurmak istediler. Amaç, şehri kuşatacak olanların işini daha da zorlaştırmaktı. Ancak fazla bir şey yapmaya zaman kalmadı: Osmanlı kalabalıkları yeni fetihler ve kan için susamıştı.

Çarpışmalar acımasızdı. İslam fanatiklerinin ardı ardına yaptığı hücumlar Venedik toplarıyla püskürtülüyor, savunucular ise bir aydan fazla süreyle burçlarda nöbet değiştiriyordu. Bayraktar Hendeği’nde — bugün caminin bulunduğu yerde — savunma hattı kırıldı. Sancaktar surlara çıkmayı başardı ve bayrağı dikti.

Bunu gören Anadolu’dan gelen kalabalıklar şehre hücum etti ve kahramanca direnen Venedikli savunucuların arkasına sarktı. Bayraktar oracıkta öldürüldü, ancak artık iş işten geçmişti. Kan, tecavüz ve yağma için susamış Osmanlı askerleri Lefkoşa’ya girdi. Barut tükenmişti ve şehrin soylu aileleri için — ve sadece onlar için değil — son gelmişti.

Osmanlı kılıçları durmaksızın çalışıyordu. Atlı ve yaya saldırganlar çığlıklar atarak karşılaştıkları herkesi kılıçtan geçiriyordu.

Bir İngiliz Seyyahın Tanıklığı

O dönemde şehirde mahsur kalan ve katliamdan sağ kurtulan bir İngiliz seyyahın anlatımı özellikle çarpıcıdır:

“Bir hizmetçi hanımıyla birlikte sokakta saklanacak bir yer ararken, bir Türk hançeri havayı yarıp hanımının başını gövdesinden ayırdı. Baş, havada bir top gibi dönerek uçtu. Hizmetçi durdu, önlüğünü açtı, hanımının kesik başını içine koydu ve onunla birlikte kaçmaya devam etti. Ancak birkaç adım sonra Osmanlı öfkesi onu da başsız bıraktı. Hizmetçiler, köleler, asil kadınlar, gençler, yaşlılar ya da küçük çocuklar… Hiç kimse bağışlanmadı. Emir açıktı: ‘Hepsini öldürün.’”

Venedikli soyluların hizmetinde bulunan yerli Rum Kıbrıslılar da idam edildi. Yunan nüfusunun büyük kısmı, dağlara ve Kıbrıs’ın iç bölgelerine kaçan bazı Venediklilerle birlikte kurtuldu. Yabancı kaynaklara göre, şehrin sokakları akan kandan kıpkırmızı olmuştu. Nüfus oranına göre bu katliam, İstanbul’un fethindeki kıyımdan bile daha büyük olarak nitelendirilmektedir.

Famagusta’da yaşananlar daha da korkunçtu: Marcantonio Bragadin ve tüm Venedik aristokrasisi, şehri teslim edip gemileriyle ayrılmalarına izin verileceğine dair anlaşmaya rağmen idam edildi.

It’s worth listening to this video again

And I remember that we discussed the subject, my child, which has now shocked

the entire world. If it is true, if the prophecies of

Paisios are true and if in particular this text that

he wrote is from the hand of Saint Paisios.

And the elder Euthymius tells me, my master,

because the saint saw that Saint Paisios would come to a time

when both his escapes and his words would be questioned.

Not only by those who deny the prophetic event in the life of the

New Testament of the Church, but also by heretics who exaggerate the

prophecies, twist them and turn them into

mythologies and false prophecies.

We have both extremes

and a ministry of the bishop of today's bishop is to

distinguish what is true and what is false. If

Saint James, Saint Porphyrios and the Aigerontissa Galaktia from the

latter put me in this mission

, it is precisely for this. To distinguish and help the world, the

confused, what is true and what is false.

They said I can do it, the thing must be connected

to their light differently. The lighter that I light here may burn you and

burn me instead of enlightening you.

Someone wrote a comment about what is happening with this lighter of the form.

Some say it enlightens them and others it suffocates.

Well,

Father Euthymius told me the following beautiful thing.

Because he tells me that various extremes will be created and they will question

the words of our leaders, whether Paisios, or Jacob, or

Porphyrios, or others. Saint Paisios himself took care of it,

he tells me, and he even wrote them down and he told me, he tells me, in his own

writings, he persecutes me because the time will come when they will

question my words, listen

to what Father Efthimios told me, I speak with names, I hide behind where there

are anonymity, a brother and a sister. No.

Father Efthimios told me this in 2011 in Keldos,

who subsequently showed his mind

that he has him in his heart on other issues. And he and many other Athonite monks,

such as the great abbot of Saint Paul, the elder of the Abbots,

Father Parthenios, and in the problem that

has plagued us all for three years, of COVID and the vaccine,

on the right track, Father Euthymios came out of himself and did

what his teacher Saint Paisios wrote

and told the world not to get vaccinated,

the writings remain hidden,

the Latins said,

so on the issue of Ukrainians, he also stood up

correctly, so that we do not do injustice, says Onufrio

, and on the issue of the identity card, the

electronic identities, which are not the same as the biometric Cypriot

ones that my mother brought with me,

No, not the ones that they want to bring to us. It will be electronic slavery.

All all all the elements and the problem of all people of the new

order is the freedom of the Orthodox.

Among them the freedom of any other religion.

The freedom of the Orthodox where the Orthodox is from America to

Japan. Why do you know why Why especially the

Orthodox Why we perform divine service we bring down God the earth

is taken is eaten fill the body so

fill the body there is God the perfect God and the perfect man Jesus

Christ and tempts lives a lot his satan the thing

so and they want to enslave us

but with tambourines, but with the Ukrainian now to

intimidate us with the world war and their radioactivity. To tell us

tomorrow you will not be able to eat anything because they dropped nukes on Iran, on

Iraq, on the and on Israel. And where is Cyprus here in Heron Bill.

Do you remember what we suffered so far? Not next to us.

And yet Saint Matrona, so that we do not remain only in the prophecies of Saint

Paisios, told us that you will crucify them

and if you have faith, you will not crucify only my victory like the

witch, with faith,

bless the food and drink of your servant, my Christ

, and they will be cleansed from radioactivity and nothing will happen to him.