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We all are very different, but everyone is important just like every member of our body is essential. And just like our body has a head, the Church’s head is Christ. And Church without Him would be as a body without head. And we care about each other as we care about every part of our body. And Christ cares about all of us. And we should keep our body – the Church clean and healthy from lies and heresies. “…But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased… But now indeed there are many members, yet one body…. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually…” (1Cor.12) "Who (Paul) now rejoice in my sufferings for you, ... for His Body's sake, which is the Church (Col. 1:24) ". . .for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ" (Eph. 4:11-12).

Divine Providence is not fate. God does not control every moment of our lives. There are things that are in our power and our free-will only, or it is will of other people, or consequences of corrupted nature. Providence of God in our lives means that He provides for us all that is necessary for our salvation. Everything we have God gives us for the purpose of working out our salvation. St. John Chrysostom says that we know very little about things and reasons, and our conclusions are often wrong, while God is able to suggest special path among many to salvation for every single person, with love and compassion.

What is divine providence? In the Catechism of St. Philaret we read that Divine providence is the constant energy of the almighty power, wisdom, and goodness of God working in the world. John Damascene describes it as Divine will which maintains everything and wisely rules over everything. There are two types of providence. There is general one, which concerns the whole world as a complex of elements, creatures, natural forces and laws functioning in itself. And there is special providence which is about particular things, events, people. Saints also say that God’s providence works as direct will or permission. And what is important to remember that the main goal of God and His providence is our salvation.

☦️🌟 The iconographic original is a special guide to iconography, a collection of specimens defining all the details of canonical images of various persons and events reproduced on icons. Iconographic originals are divided into facial and interpretative. The obverse iconographic original contains drawings ("sketches") of icons, usually arranged according to the days of church veneration. The facial iconographic original can be used as a facial synodic, facial Bible, as well as collections of individual procies. The explanatory original includes descriptions of the subjects, compositions, colors, and other details of icons according to the days of veneration. P.S. Checking by the Icongraphic Original it's possible to realize that the RC image of "holy family" is not an Orthodox icon.

🙏🌟 Iconography is a dogmatic matter, in Orthodoxy it's regulated the document called the "Iconographic Original" (podlinnik in Russian or hermeneja in Greek). The surviving iconographic originals date mainly from the 16th century. But the Russian National Library holds an illustrated Greek-Georgian manuscript, attributed by some researchers to the 15th century, which may also be an iconographic original.

St. Theophan the Recluse: “God arranges the lot of each person, and the entire course of life of each one is also His all-good industry, as in each moment and each meeting. Let us take an example: A poor man comes to us; God has brought him. What are you supposed to do? Help him. God, Who has brought this poor man to you, with the desire, of course, that you act toward this poor man in a manner pleasing to Him, looks at you, to see how you will in fact act. He will be pleased if you help. Will you help? You will have done what is pleasing to God, and will have made a big step towards the final goal: reward in Heaven. If you generalize this instance, you will come to the conclusion that in all instances, and during each meeting, it is necessary to do what God wants us to do. "

☦️🕯️THE HERETICAL ICON FOR WHAT IS CALLED“ THE HOLY FAMILY,” WHICH IS NOT EXIST IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH 🕯️☦️ The depictions of the "Holy Family" are based on innovations of Catholicism, which has in modern times instituted a Feast of the Holy Family. As one Roman Catholic scholar has remarked, in contrasting the Catholic feast centered on the Holy Family to the Christian Feasts of antiquity, “(The Feast of the Holy Family) ...is a product of our modern age, the times to which we belong.” In traditional Orthodox Iconography, the Christ Child is properly portrayed, not alone with St. Joseph, but rather alone with His Mother, thereby stressing the dogma that He is “a Son without a father, Who was begotten of the Father without a mother before the ages.” In the Orthodox Church, we have many holy families, such as Joachim and Anna with the Theotokos, Zechariah and Elizabeth with John the Forerunner, the family of Basil the Great, the family of Gregory Palamas, the family of Eustathios Plakidas.

True devotion and trusting our life to God means to be ready to accept the will of God even if we don’t like it right now. When we refuse trust God trying to keep “safe” what we have, to stay in comfort, we are more likely to lose it without God’s care and get in much more trouble. And we also lose the chance to get the best treasure God prepared for us. As it happened with lazy servant in the parable (Luke 19, Matthew 25). “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” Matthew 25:29

☦️🕯️“Forgiveness without justice is capitulation and weakness.”🕯️☦️ ✠ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow ✠

☦️🕯️"The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner and mercifully presses him to His bosom: 'Where were you, My child? I was waiting a long time for you.'"🕯️☦️ ♰ St. Silouan the Athonite ♰