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Orthodox Quote for October 18

mbondsOctober 18, 2019No Comment 2019-10-05T21:47:54+00:00

“At the extremely difficult and exceedingly grievous hour of death, there is no one to help a person except for his works. In fact,no one except God. If we...

Orthodox Quote for October 17

mbonds October 17, 2019 No Comment2019-10-05T21:44:55+00:00

“All of us, as we grow older, acquire experience from our own lives and from the lives of others. But a young person lacks this experience. This is why...

Orthodox Quote for October 16

mbonds October 16, 2019 No Comment2019-10-05T21:42:23+00:00

“But it is not enough, brethren, only to celebrate ‘The Triumph of Orthodoxy’. It is necessary for us personally to promote and contribute to this triumph. And for this...

Orthodox Quote for October 15

mbonds October 16, 2019 No Comment2019-10-05T21:38:26+00:00

“We must subject ourselves to Christ, the head of our Church, just as our body is subject to the head. If young people return and submit to Christ, they...

Modern Orthodox Elders

Fr Seraphim Rose on True Accounts of the Beyond

mbondsOctober 17, 2019No Comment 2019-10-04T20:33:53+00:00

“True Christian experiences of heaven always bear one and the same stamp of other-worldly experience. Those who have In held heaven have not merely travelled to a different place;...

Elder St. Porphyrios on the Intensity of Prayer

mbonds October 14, 2019 No Comment2019-10-04T20:32:43+00:00

“God is everywhere present and fills all things. I try to take wings to infinity and fly amidst the stars. My mind is lost in the magnificence of God’s...

Elder St Paisios on the Importance of Baptism

mbonds October 13, 2019 No Comment2019-10-04T20:31:13+00:00

“Once there was a monk on Mount Athos who was from a Bulgarian village where a lot of people weren’t baptised. He told me that when he was still...

St Tikhon of America on Judging Others

mbonds October 9, 2019 No Comment2019-10-04T20:30:06+00:00

“Yet we love to observe the sins of others. Not considering the beam in our own eye, we take notice of the mote in our brother’s eye. (Matt. 7....