#Maximos the Confessor

[dramoor]

“The way of truth is love. The Logos of God called Himself the way, and those who travel on this way He presents, purified from every stain, to God the Father.”

~St. Maximos the Confessor  

(Art: The Ascension by  Giotto Di Bondone, 1305)

[orthodoxadventure]

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Why Maximos the Confessor needs another vote. Look at this quote.

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

St. Maximos the Confessor propaganda!

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL WAY OF PUTTING the scripture of taking the beam out of your eye before taking the splinter out of your neighbor's eye

SAINT MAXIMUS PRAY FOR US

[orthodoxicons]

“Let yourself die while striving, rather than living in laziness. For those who die while trying to keep the commandments are just as much martyrs as those who died for Christ’s sake.”

— St. Maximos the Confessor

[euphratesdrying]

𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 — 𖠁 while i agree religion shouldn't replace medication since medication is absolutely necessary when it helps with irreversible damage the friction of our souls with the world creates on the physical, i know from experience that there are mental disorders like bpd which professionals themselves not only do not know how to fully deal with but systemically avoid and push away those who suffer from them.

for example in canada they offer MAID as the only solution for people with bpd. so next time you're downgrading the importance of religion to people who most possibly have reached out for help to professionals and find their attempts null don't judge and don't assume they're guilable victims to the church.

a serious and trustworthy orthodox priest with a deeper understanding of personhood can go a long way. in fact orthodox theology may have an answer psychiatrists do not when it comes to certain disorders and i'm not talking about demons or some other stereotypical medieval peasant answer, i'm talking about deep psychoanalysis only masters like saint maximos the confessor and saint john of the ladder could offer by recognizing the subconscious and the unconscious years before psychiatry did.

for me as a diagnosed person with bpd the prayer of the heart and the advice of the fathers and trustworthy spiritual fathers do things which dbt can only formally replicate.

art uknown.

[turangalila]

– Angeli, archangeli, troni

[Musica quinque vocum : motteta materna lingua vocata. Ab optimus & varijs authoribus elaborata, paribus vocibus decantanda : nunquàm antea excussa. Nunc vero sub signo anchorae in lucem prodit, maximo labora & diligentia emendata, ut patebit experientibus. / Musices quinque parium vocum a pluribus optimis authoribus elaboratae. (Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1543)]

Anonymous Attrib. to Leonora d'Este.

Angeli, archangeli, troni et dominationes, principatus et potestates, virtutes, cherubim atque seraphim, patriarche et prophete, sancti legis doctores, apostoli, omnes Christi martyres, sancti confessores, virgines Domini, anachoritae: Sanctique omnes, intercedite pro nobis.

Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter. / Princess, Nun and Musician / Motets from a 16th century convent. Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens. Directed by Laurie Stras & Deborah Roberts. (2017, Obsidian – CD 717)

[leonieanderson]

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

- Saint Maximos the Confessor

[bast38]

“The wisdom of God is revealed in His becoming by nature a true man. His justice is shown by His assumption, at His nativity, of a passible nature identical to our own. His might is shown by His creation, through His suffering and death, of a life that is by nature eternal and of a state of dispassion that is immutable.”

—St Maximos the Confessor, “Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice”

[hieromonkcharbel]

St.Maximos the Confessor - Feast Jan. 21st

The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and his grandson Constans. When the Monothelite heresy became predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it - neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile where he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were Orthodox in the East (See also August 13).

Apolytikion of Maximus the Confessor

Plagal of the Fourth Tone

You are a guide of Orthodoxy, a teacher of piety and modesty, a luminary of the world, the God inspired pride of monastics. O wise Maximos, you have enlightened everyone by your teachings. You are the harp of the Spirit. Intercede to Christ our God for the salvation of our souls.

Kontakion of Maximus the Confessor

Plagal of the Fourth Tone

Let us the faithful praise with fitting hymns that lover of the Holy Trinity, great Maximus, who clearly taught the divinely-given Faith: that we should give glory unto Christ our God, Who, though but one hypostasis, hath in very truth two natures, wills, and energies. Let us cry to him: Rejoice, divine herald of the Faith.

[orthodoxadventure]

"If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator."

-- St. Maximos the Confessor (The Philokalia Vol. 2; Faber and Faber pg. 55):

[catholic-saint-tournament]

About St Anselm (left)

About St Maximus the Confessor (right)

PRE-SCHISM BRACKET ROUND 1

[stevhep]

Imaginative Prayer, Dark Contemplation

'When He sat down at table with them, He took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and offered it to them; whereupon their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and with that, He disappeared from their sight.'

(Luke 24:30-31)

The visible Jesus who accompanied the disciples to Emmaus was less comprehensible to them than the invisible Jesus who accompanied them from Emmaus. But it would be a mistake to think that the Eucharistic moment of encounter was the one thing necessary to open the eyes of Cleopas and his companion, the preceding journey of the unrecognised Jesus and the unseeing disciples was an essential precondition for that dramatic denouement.

We could see in the post-Crucifixion episode uniquely recorded by St Luke an allegory of three types of prayer. From Jerusalem to Emmaus we have what Catholics have classically called meditation, that is, the mind engages directly but not analytically with the unfolding revelation of God in the world and in the Scriptures. It has not yet reached understanding but the foundation for understanding has been laid....(click here to read more)

https://thoughtfullycatholic.wordpress.com/2022/02/19/imaginative-prayer-dark-contemplation/

(via Imaginative Prayer, Dark Contemplation)

[eternal-echoes]

“He who busies himself with the sin of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begin to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.”

- St. Maximos the Confessor

[turangalila]

[Musica quinque vocum : motteta materna lingua vocata. Ab optimus & varijs authoribus elaborata, paribus vocibus decantanda : nunquàm antea excussa. Nunc vero sub signo anchorae in lucem prodit, maximo labora & diligentia emendata, ut patebit experientibus. / Musices quinque parium vocum a pluribus optimis authoribus elaboratae. (Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1543)]

Anonymous Attrib. to Leonora d'Este.

– Angustiae mihi sunt undique

Angustiae mihi sunt undique et quid eligam ignoro melius est mihi incidere in manus hominum quam derelinquere legem dei mei.

– O beate Christi confessor

O beate Christi confessor Roche quam magna apud Deum sunt merita tua quibus nos credimus ab omnibus malis posse liberari, / concede nobis famulis tuis ut tuis sanctis praecibus ad gloriam perveniamus. // nos morbo epydemie posse liberari; et aeris temperiem concede.

Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter. / Princess, Nun and Musician / Motets from a 16th century convent. Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens. Directed by Laurie Stras & Deborah Roberts. (2017, Obsidian – CD 717)