Christian Life Journey

Fall of Constantinople 1453, sourced Heritage Daily On 29 May 1453, the most important of Roman Empire of Eastern Orthodox Church, Constantinople, has fallen by Ottoman Muslims was led Sultan Mehmed II.  The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI's final speech, " God forbids that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosever whishes to escape, let him save himself if he can, and whoever is ready to face death, let him follow me. " over he rejected an advice by an advisor to escape and establish an empire on exile, that believed in Genoa or any Italian region. Hagia Sophia is always a church despite it is currently a mosque On the last Divine Liturgy was held at Hagia Sophia, a prior of a day of siege on 28 May 1453. The Hagia Sophia was established by Emperor Constantine I in 325 and was a church cathedral for Orthodox people. The Hagia Sophia is in Greek language meaning " Holy Wisdom " or  Ἁγία Σοφία or Aya Sop

Holy Fire in Jerusalem We typically celebrate the Easter - however that the Orthodox people generally saying that's Pascha - but I felt like that was so special that I celebrated the Pascha in a different Christianity tradition which was unfamiliar to myself, being to live in the country who well-known about Western Christianity. We celebrate the Pascha on a different calendar, it is Julian Calendar so many people wonder that why we are being late celebrate the Pascha and even the Christmas, a week late (between 12-13 days on Julian and Gregorian calendars) from the Western Christians. But, in certain times in history, we celebrate on the same date like 2017 we celebrate the Pascha together with Roman Catholics and it will be happening next year! The Eastern Orthodox is the holy and first church to just celebrated a blessed holy week in last week! Unfortunately, I was unlucky in that schedule as I had a five-day training during the holy week schedule, that caused I had to miss mult