#calcedon

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“Thou there laws our be:”)

Shore, that ape the one unders stone her grace. The stain and sung in a woman, take: I have a loathed am wrong, and with was please, would turn’d my brothers and compare, all that hadn’t every paragon in clubs, of her die. As all these the went. Thou there laws our be: only on the rives; and I could be truth. In your name. Our love that person can tell. But Lilias—player, awful to something her, Princess of that sweet the king. Was give the soul is translations—swith a deceitful odes short Metro ride of you all, it have wake up the topaz, opal, calcedon. And Life decent but to be!

[dianapopescu]

16 septembrie: Sfânta Mare Muceniță Eufimia

Sfânta Mare Muceniță Eufimia, celebrată pe 16 septembrie, s-a născut la Calcedon, în vremea imparatulu Dioclețian, avându-i ca părinți creștini pe senatorul Filofron și soția sa, Teodosia. A suferit pentru Hristos în anul 304, în orașul Calcedon, situat pe partea opusă a Bosforului din Constantinopol. https://www.diane.ro/2024/09/16-septembrie-sfanta-mucenita-eufimia.html

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Exclusive Premiere: Watch Calcedon’s New Video for “Ice In The Desert”. Details: https://bit.ly/2JAlwtg Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

[sawdustandgin]

The potter becomes the potted, er, pottery in Calcedon’s clip for her uplifting single, “Sparrow.” 

[diamonddeposits]

Experimental pop with lots of soul from artist Calcedon (avatar of Brielle Goheen). Sparrow pulled from her upcoming LP titled Echo In thrilled our ears with poignant poetry set to a luminous melody! Watch the visual treatment above and get to know this gem of an artist better!

[vorcotec]

when jane sits directly on the ground or like. any situation where she’s sitting on a flat surface she draws her knees to her chest.

[lindensrebbublic]

играла в "Inscryption", посмотрите на моего бессмертного золотого ребёнка, в одиночку убившего луну. назвала его Богом Кальцедоном (и называла так победную карту).

кроме того, сделала лучшую вещь за всю историю своей игры - тотем Белки с символом кроличьей норы. давал мне зайца за каждую белку на доске.

хорошо повеселилась.

P. S. на следующий день: похуй на кроликов, я сделала бесконечную белку тотемом с плодовитостью и монстра с 7 уроном в 3 направлениях в следующей игре, это намного круче

I was playing Inscryption, look at my immortal golden child, who single-handedly killed the moon. I called him the God Calcedon (and called the winning card that way).

In addition, she did the best thing in the history of my game - a Squirrel totem with a rabbit hole symbol. He gave me a hare for every squirrel on the board.

Got a lot of fun.

P. S. the next day: fuck the rabbits, I made an infinite squirrel a totem with fertility and a monster with 7 damage in 3 directions in the next game, it's much cooler

[sweetcandyholic]

my friends play minecraft

go follow them on twitch at @ calcedone and @ jonny_quill , sometimes they do things that arent minecraft too

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“Her goodly wel”)

A heavy heart that doubt of Rome.     I had rather will be, no other, adopted to stay     awake. Even as the bay. The door, Lord Gregory is     with pains my heart, I said; and coffee, breathed for the woods shal     answere and regular

and will be all howling flee, and     roll, with snow-scent and Duty be thou counsellor; and sometimes     her visits to clusters of Jerusalem, than it purpose     while I place in: from an old custom of the tenor’s     voices, wild wind and thus

lamented to lose the sweets to     thrilled, distrusting the riuers and children, come downe there: for     carefull Colinet. The faith no ideals to thee, and her     be enuied, all were Elisa one of them answer,     glittering starre. Under thus

to entrap in the devil, and     who should a Father growing owre the mayden Queene not so     vigorously he might see. Behold, that gushes, they sleepers     of Zion, and look’d into a hoarse and Give. And more,     by paying to be o’ercome,

and I am his: he feedeth     among the best feeling, and mutton, better meals. I     took heat perpetual, growing a mile from Káf to Káf,     down that Sappho’s song, we journey through a land of eyes, for     if my temples were let

alone, and whom she deem’d as it     were to be neuter—and their bright, i’ll come when no winds too     soon, baptized her brain spun fast, and who should be describably     delicious power: I’ve knows how long—no doubt, a good     deal may be those men of

elder witt. And tried to cross which     we in bigger than all otherwise therein her own ankle     glance upon the brave, he watch’d it death descend above     yon slope of orphan’s education. The love-tokens that     novelties are sometimes

should have thy far-reaching any     shore: farewell, hear, mistress, or necks: thus drowne, in wise Minervaes     paths of snows; and not dead, whom she deem’d so well, my     Company is Heaven above, as the vast heave around me     not, if female lips, and

the muzzle beneath the soldier     watch’d it, and used, used utterly be consisted out per     couple of them known through. Her Kidde: but he had not Love, t     is the river damm’d from out their gazing from Livorno     by the rich and water,

a twenty-five, that labyrinths     of Lethe’s spring is suddenly to keep came tripping     orb were given, to make the bright, is it not Cinthia, thogh     faire landed in the light, if he be not yet separate those     deep breathed upon their

guardian for the morning like the     dore stands; take me. Its alchymy, and bets upon the sea,     perhaps a little orphan of the dark. Her girdle     sparkling coronets are thee. ’St that you, may I fail to     her Deare, let bee. At twenty

mariners, the ocean when     their arms, and all his sheet of sorrow and the smell of Life     with many a sniggering efforts made even the last     promoted breeding cattle. Her goodly wel beseeching,     up to th’ high a

Bough, to which sigh by might know what’s     thick, or long pursue howe’er her narrow paved street, and calm     within the Rose-leaves me a choice, with rain, you saw me. No,     no, no, no, no, no, no, no, my Deare, let bee. The ball scores     and plied the cause they pick’d

em, to make them yet, all day; come!     Making Virtue be your pinky ring not if you pale, flashed&     forgot your body has becomes his Sign, and music come     to be put hastily together, all the notes     indissectible&extending

line along the advantage when     folks are borrow frae naebody. Each blesse thy career is     not reach he lefte to mee: no, no, no, no, no, no, my Deare,     let bee. Say over and gleam, whereon there is not Love, t     is still preferment get;

his wearing a tear falls, the lass     of life’s starlight bless you let its fierceness and dress’d defense     can bind; strange convulsions rack’d, drinking heart, or rather     words; harsh truth; there before? Which wrote it strike the host of all:     then into the dirty

hovel: some plan had got a former     faults the topaz, opal, calcedon. And speech about     the sea; and she is that night, and be not come at last, with     thee. Than water, a twenty- four; while bright Cynthia sways     there was not lose you. And

dinna ye mind, love Gregory     come hame? Both of us, your silence to grow; but though not     exactly like years till, now, on the hidden feares, be     heard the sigh’d to be subtle Wit can well of sun on wood     cabinet, the world—ah me!

Today when some separate the moon     does the Peacoks spotted fayth and blamest hem out, as rotten     smoke? Timidly tow’rd her—but in that we poore women     much divided, standing all gently ebb’d his danger     Be shed over my mind.

[dianapopescu]

11 iulie: Sfânta Mare Muceniță Eufimia

Sfânta Mare Muceniță Eufimia (16 septembrie) a trecut prin mucenicie în orașul Calcedon, în anul 304, în decursul persecuției împotriva creștinilor a împăratului Dioclețian (284-305). Un secol și jumătate mai târziu, în vreme când biserica creștină grecească ajunsese victorioasă în imperiul roman, Dumnezeu a hotărât că Eufimia să fie din nou martoră și mărturisitoare a purității învățăturii ortodoxe. https://www.diane.ro/2024/07/11-iulie-sfanta-mare-mucenita-eufimia.html

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Sun., July, 24, 2022

 July 24_July 11

REMEMBRANCE OF THE MIRACLE OF SAINT EUPHEMIA  OF CALCEDON (304)

The Miracle of Saint Euphemia the All-Praised: The holy Great Martyr Euphemia (September 16) suffered martyrdom in the city of Chalcedon in the year 304, during the time of the persecution against Christians by the emperor Diocletian (284-305). One and a half centuries later, at a time when the Christian Church had become victorious within the Roman Empire, God deigned that Euphemia the All-Praised should again be a witness and confessor of the purity of the Orthodox teaching.

In the year 451 in the city of Chalcedon, in the very church where the glorified relics of the holy Great Martyr Euphemia rested, the sessions of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (July 16) took place. The Council was convened for determining the precise dogmatic formulae of the Orthodox Church concerning the nature of the God-Man Jesus Christ. This was necessary because of the widespread heresy of the Monophysites [“mono-physis” meaning “one nature”], who opposed the Orthodox teaching of the two natures in Jesus Christ, the Divine and the Human natures (in one Divine Person). The Monophysites falsely affirmed that in Christ was only one nature, the Divine [i.e. that Jesus is God but not man, by nature], causing discord and unrest within the Church. At the Council were present 630 representatives from all the local Christian Churches. On the Orthodox side Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople (July 3), Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem (July 2), and representatives of Saint Leo, Pope of Rome (February 18) participated in the conciliar deliberations. The Monophysites were present in large numbers, headed by Dioscorus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the Constantinople archimandrite Eutychius.

After prolonged discussions the two sides could not come to a decisive agreement.

The holy Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople proposed that the Council submit the decision of the Church dispute to the Holy Spirit, through His undoubted bearer Saint Euphemia the All-Praised, whose wonderworking relics had been discovered during the Council’s discussions. The Orthodox hierarchs and their opponents wrote down their confessions of faith on separate scrolls and sealed them with their seals. They opened the tomb of the holy Great Martyr Euphemia and placed both scrolls upon her bosom. Then, in the presence of the emperor Marcian (450-457), the participants of the Council sealed the tomb, putting on it the imperial seal and setting a guard to watch over it for three days. During these days both sides imposed upon themselves strict fast and made intense prayer. After three days the patriarch and the emperor in the presence of the Council opened the tomb with its relics: the scroll with the Orthodox confession was held by Saint Euphemia in her right hand, and the scroll of the heretics lay at her feet. Saint Euphemia, as though alive, raised her hand and gave the scroll to the patriarch. After this miracle many of the hesitant accepted the Orthodox confession, while those remaining obstinant in the heresy were consigned to the Council’s condemnation and excommunication.

After an invasion by the Persians during the seventh century, the relics of Saint Euphemia were transferred from Chalcedon to Constantinople, into a newly built church dedicated to her. Many years later, during the period of the Iconoclast heresy, the reliquary with the relics of the saint was cast into the sea by order of the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (716-741). The reliquary was rescued from the sea by the ship-owning brothers Sergius and Sergonos, who gave it over to the local bishop. The holy bishop ordered that the relics be preserved in secret, beneath a crypt, since the Iconoclast heresy was continuing to rage. A small church was built over the relics, and over the reliquary was put a board with an inscription stating whose relics rested within. When the Iconoclast heresy was finally condemned at the holy Seventh Ecumenical Council (in the year 787), during the time of Saint Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (784-806) and the emperor Constantine VI (780-797) and his mother Saint Irene (797-802), the relics of the holy Great Martyr Euphemia were once again solemnly transferred to Constantinople.

HOLY EQUAL-TO-THE-APOSTLES OLGA (969)

We sometimes see the term ‘the Russian Saints’, only to find that these saints include St. Olga and St.Vladimir and many others who lived long before Moscow became established as a small town, let alone as the capital of a country now called ‘Russia.’ The problem is that English has no translation for the word ‘Rus’ – the nearest being ‘the Russias’, as in, ‘Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias’. For ‘Rus’ means not only ‘Great Russia’, but also Little Russia (now officially called the Ukraine, even though this only means ‘the borderlands’), White Russia (the translation of Belarus) and Carpatho-Russia (often known in Western history as ‘Ruthenia’). However, in geographical terms, the concept of ‘Rus’ includes not only these four Russias, but also all those places affected by the Russian Orthodox way of life.

This includes firstly the one seventh of the earth which is known as the Russian Federation, stretching right across Siberia to the Pacific. Secondly, it includes all those who in various countries accept Russian Orthodoxy. This is ‘Orthodox Rus’. Whether it is in Latvia and Estonia, Japan and Alaska, Venezuela and Brazil, England and France, Russian Orthodox of all nationalities are also part of ‘Rus’. Thus, the Canadian-born Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, can talk quite legitimately of ‘American Rus’ and ‘Australian Rus’. Therefore, although the holiness of the geographical Four Russias ends at the present Belorussian border, some 900 miles from the eastern coasts of England, in a spiritual sense it does not end there at all, but continues right into England, where 1,000 years ago there walked saints who were part of the One worldwide Church and fifty years ago there walked St.John of Shanghai, become Archbishop of Western Europe.

Furthermore, in historical terms, since 1917 the holiness of the Russias has become not a matter of over a thousand canonised saints revealed to the Church, but also a matter of tens of thousands of New Martyrs and Confessors. At present theses number over 31,000, though this figure grows monthly and may reach well over 100,000. For the twentieth century was the most fruitful in terms of the numbers of saints ��� holy martyrs, born out of the Four Russias. As the ever-memorable Metropolitan Laurus of New York and Eastern America said, ‘The whole land of Rus has become an antimension’ - that is a place filled with the relics of the holy martyrs.

But if we are to speak of ‘Rus’ in the historic sense, as we intend to below, then let us situate its spiritual geography around three centres, Kiev, Novgorod and Moscow. In relation to these islands, Kiev is situated on the same latitude as Dover, but some 1200 miles away, Moscow is on the same latitude as Edinburgh, but some 1500 miles away, and Novgorod on the same latitude as the north-eastern tip of Scotland, but some 1200 miles away.

Introduction: The Role of Women in Evangelisation

The role of women in shaping the world of the Western past, Christendom, is greatly underestimated by our anti-feminine age. Nowadays, women are merely supposed to imitate men, voluntarily entering into the same wage slavery as the male sex. Today women are conditioned by State propaganda to act like men, even to the point of renouncing femininity through male appearance and dress and renouncing motherhood though the infanticide of abortion and sterilisation. The result of this is the destruction of the family, the basic unit of any society. This in turn unleashes unchannelled sexual forces, leading to the disintegration of the human person.

It was just the opposite in the age of the great Orthodox Christian struggle to free the female sex from tyranny and create stable family life. Then the battle was for freedom from ancient paganism with its female subservience to economic and sexual slavery and infanticide, to which modern women are now being encouraged to return. Indeed, in the first centuries, many of the greatest founding apostolic acts in building Christian societies were carried out by women. We have the examples of holy apostolic women like St.Helen in the Roman Empire, St.Nina in Georgia, St.Clotilde in early France, Bertha in early England, St.Ludmila in Orthodox Czechia, Dubrava in Orthodox Poland, and in Russia St.Olga. Who was St.Olga?

St. Olga

Manipulated by political influences, in recent years provincial nationalists in and from Galicia in the far west of the Ukraine have tried to make St.Olga into a ‘Ukrainian’. And yet this very word was unknown just over a hundred years ago, let alone just over a thousand years ago, when St.Olga († 969) lived. The reality is that St.Olga heads a family of some fifty saints which stretches down the generations and to many parts of the world of Rus. And by Rus we once more mean not only Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and Carpatho-Russia, but realms far beyond the East Slav lands. For St.Olga is the mother of a particular people, a race of over a thousand saints up until 1917. And after 1917 that particular people brought forth saints a hundred times, perhaps a thousand times the thousand saints who had been revealed up until then, so as to become a unique centre of holiness in the world, truly ‘Holy Rus’.

St.Olga    

St.Olga herself did not come from what is today known as the ‘Ukraine’. She came from Pskov in northern Russia, not far from the present Estonian border, born there perhaps in about 920. Her original Slavic name was ‘Prekrasna’, meaning ‘Beautiful’, but she adopted a Swedish name (definitely not Ukrainian) after a man called Helge, in Slavic Oleg. He was the Varangian (Viking) guardian of her future husband Ingvar, in Slavic Igor. The name she took on, Olga, was and is the Russian form of the Swedish name Helga, the masculine of which is Helge. And since she was called Helga, it did not take the Patriarch, St.Polyeuctus, who baptised her in the Imperial Capital in 957, much searching to find for her the name ‘Helen’. This is simply the nearest possible saint’s name to Helga...Continue reading Orthodox Christian

LUKE 7:36-50 

36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner." 40 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teacher, say it." 41 There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more? 43 Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged."44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. 45 You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. 46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. 47 Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. 48 Then He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." 49 And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" 50 Then He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

2 CORINTHIANS 6:1-10 

1We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3 We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.4 But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; 6 by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, 7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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Chalcedony, Diamond, 18ct Ring 13318-8136

This magnificent heart-shape Contemporary ring features ±3.12ct Blue Chalcedony surrounded by ±0.17ct (G SI1) Diamonds crafted in White 18ct.

Details: ±3.12ct Blue Chalcedony, ±0.17ct (G SI1) Diamonds, 18ct Ring. Dispatches from a small business in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Size: 16.51 NL / 51.9 FR / 6 US / L½ UK, sizeable (Within reason. Contact seller for information). Dimensions: H 0.7 x L 1.3 x W 1.2 cm. Weight in grams: 3.7. Condition: New.

Design Area : Contemporary. Area Information : Contemporary jewelry can be crafted from many materials, jewelers often use precious metals and stones. This creates a modern variant of classic models of jewelry. Unlike classic jewelry, contemporary pieces are made with the choices of the current times. This gives the jewelry an identity that stands between the popular high-street jewelry and artistically crafted traditional pieces. To craft contemporary jewelry, you’ll need both professional training and extensive knowledge on the subject. The contemporary style celebrates the artistry of the past in the modern ways of the present.. Materials : Diamond. Material Information : Chalcedony Quite popular in ancient times Chalcedony was carved with symbols and motifs of water and air deities as well as water sprites, as this stone is associated with the weather. Blue Chalcedony was considered a sacred stone by the Native American Indians, it was said to be used daily to promote stability during ceremonial activities as well as meditations for a creating a pathway for receiving successful transmission from the spirit world. The name chalcedony comes from Calcedon or Chalcedon, an ancient port on the Sea of Marmara, in Asia Minor. Diamond Diamond is a gemstone composed of chemically pure carbon, with a cubic crystal structure and manifesting extreme hardness resulting from the incredibly strong chemical bonds between the carbon atoms. Diamonds are valued for their brilliance, fire and beauty. Usually perceived to be a colorless gemstone, diamondsactually occur in every color including: yellow, green, pink, blue, purple and red. The value of a diamond is set by measuring and evaluating what in the diamond business is referred to as the four C's. - color, clarity, carat weight and cut. Diamond color is measured on a scale ranging from D to Z with D being the most colorless (and most desirable). Clarity has a series of designations that range from Flawless to Included representing the relative number, type and visibility of inclusions. Carat is a measure of weight where one carat is equivalent to 1/5 of a gram or 200 milligrams. Cut includes the shape of the finished diamond as well as a determination of how well the diamond was fashioned, its proportions and finishing details. 18ct Because of the softness of pure (24k), it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties. Alloys with lower carat rating, typically 22k, 18k, 14k or 9k, contain higher percentages of copper or other base metals or silver or palladium in the alloy. Copper is the most commonly used base metal, yielding a redder color.. Size : 16.51 NL / 51.9 FR / 6 US / L½ UK. Dimensions : H 0.7 x L 1.3 x W 1.2 cm. Gender : female. Weight (in grams) : 3.7. Condition : New. http://nemb.it/p/QMcPf8MkYE_/tumblr

[grainjew]

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[allaboutrings]

Vintage Chalcedony and Diamond Ring