Channel
@orthodoxgladness
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491subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001225237736 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @orthodoxgladness |
| Created | 14 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orthodoxgladness |
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 13:16 | 491 | +1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 17:59 | 490 | -2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:08 | 492 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:31 | 492 | first reading |
19 posts held, back to 13 November 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 21 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Never ask: "‘Why am I going through this?’ Or when you see someone else suffering from gangrene, cancer, or blindness, do not say: ‘Why is he going through this?’ But pray to God to grant you the Vision of the Other Shore!! Then you will see, as the Angels do, what is happening here, as it truly is! Everything is part of God’s plan! Everything! - St. Gavrilia
Said an elder. "God still speaks to those who have the time to listen."
Keep in mind that prayer for the reposed is strong through its communality, in that it comes from the entire Church. The Church breathes prayer. In nature, when a pregnant mother breathes, the strength she receives from this breath passes on to her child. So also in a Grace-filled way the Church breathes a prayer that is shared by all, and the power of the prayer passes on to the reposed, who are held in the bosom of…
To pray somehow, says Mark the Ascetic, lies within our power, but to pray purely is a gift of God's grace. So, whatever we can, let us offer to God, however small (for us), and God's power will flow into your feeble strength, and prayer, dry and scattered, but frequent—everlasting—when acquired and transformed into nature, will become pure, bright, ardent, and worthy prayer. - St. Alexis Mechev of Moscow
People are mistaken when they think that the life they have belongs to them and that they can do with it whatever they want. Life is a gift from God. The Lord takes it when He wills. And we see this at almost every step. "Whose breath is it that has come forth from you?" (Job 26:4) St. John of Kronstadt
The waves are many and the storm is terrible, but we are not afraid of being drowned because we are on the rock of the ages which is Christ. - St. John Chrysostom
The reason we honor the memories and icons of the Saints and honorably venerate them is their imitation, the copying and imitation of their virtue, their holiness and in general their God-pleasing virtue. By honoring the Saints, we honor and glorify God Himself who made them glorious Saints and citizens of His heavenly kingdom. We commemorate them, we give honor and glory to their holy faces and their sacred memories…
Holy Week is the time when Christ asks us to help carry His cross. Passionate week is special in the liturgical respect both for the life of every Christian and for the life of the Church. Even in Lent, Holy Week stands apart. This is the time when our Lord Jesus Christ begins His way on to Calvary, when each of us can touch the wonderful, terrible and great Mystery of the Atonement by the Savior of the whole human r…
Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. The word “Hosanna” means “Save, I pray” or “Save now.”
Said an Athonite Elder: “There is a red-haired demon who drives monks from Athos,He drags them onto a ship and takes them off into the world, casting a terrible despondency on the monk. One day, an Athonite monk was walking along a path praying and met this red demon. He looked, and saw that the red fur on his shoulder and neck was all rubbed off. The monk asked: “Who are you? ” “Me? I’m a demon. ” “Why is your fur s…
“While standing in church, one must listen attentively to the singing and reading of the church, and whoever can, must not leave out the Jesus Prayer, especially when the reading of the church is poorly heard or unclear.” - St. Ambrose of Optina
Just as a ship cannot move without water, so the mind cannot maintain silence and peace without the prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me,” sobriety and humility. - St. Hesychius of Jerusalem Saint Hesychius of Jerusalem (second half of the 4th century – c. 451)a famous Palestinian priest, ascetic and theologian, a disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian
Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @orthodoxgladness. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Orthodox Gladness” (@orthodoxgladness), 491 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/orthodoxgladness.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.