“Salvation is more than forgiveness. It is a genuine renewal of man. And this renewal is effected not by the discharge, or release of certain natural energies implied in man’s own creaturely being, but by the ‘energies’ of God Himself, who thereby encounters and encompasses man, and admits him into communion ‘with Himself.” George Florovsky “St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers”☦

Architecture: Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia

O Tannenbaum german with pictures from the second world war

"And at that time shall Michael arise, the great angel who has charge over your people; and there shall be a time of trouble such as never has been like it since the beginning of the world; and at that very time some of your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book." (Daniel)

"He who brings the peril at that time will himself protect those who fall into peril, who have works and have faith in the Almighty." (Ezra)

Art: Tintoretto. Battle of the Archangel Michael and the Satan

A Soviet T-55 tank ramming a streetcar blocking the road. Prague. Czechoslovakia. 1968 г.

Floor mosaic of the biblical King David in the crypt of St. Gereon in Cologne.

franconians are the ancestors of David