We will not give up the Bible

Familiar tune, but unfamiliar words.

The Three Terrors!!

I came across this whilst 'stumbling'" The Three Tenors"

St Ahmed the calligrapher

More information at this link St Ahmed
An amazing story about this martyr, whom I had never heard of before

Beauty

"This world is the world of wild storm kept tame with the music of beauty." Tagore

"Flowers, shade, a fine view, a sunset sky, joy, Grace, feeling, abundance, and serenity, tenderness, and song, here you have the element of beauty." Amiel

Aspiration

"But I do hold to something more, far higher than the actual human, something to which it is human to aspire to seek to translate into life individual and communal: this something translates itself to me best as the Holy Spirit."

Art and the Artist

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher.

Wonderful Singing from China

You can check out other songs from this Church.

Acceptance

The beloved of the Lord, he dwells in safety by him; he encompasses him all the day-long, and makes his dwelling between his shoulders. Deuteronomy 33:12

Passing Judgement or not

I've joined an Orthodox group on the Internet. One of the things that has surprised me is the amount of disagreement amongst so-called Orthodox. Some of them get very angry and call each other names. This seems to be very much at odds with much of the teachings of the Father's. Here below is a quote from St Macarius, the Great.
"Christians, therefore, should strive in all things and ought not to pass judgement of any kind on anyone not on the prostitute nor on sinners nor on disorderly persons. But should look on all persons with a single mind and a pure eye so that it may be for such a person almost a natural fixed attitude never to despise or judge or abhor anyone or divide people and place them into boxes.
If you see a man with one eye, do not make any judgement in your heart but regard him as though he were whole. If someone has a maimed hand, see him not as maimed. See the crippled a straight, the paralytic as healthy. For this is purity of heart, that when you see the sinners and weak, you have compassion and shown mercy toward them"