Orthodox Quote for April 17
“The bells not only called people to the beginning of worship, but by means of ringing different bells or different ringing patterns, they instructed those who could not make...
Orthodox Quote for April 16
“How is a child ever going to learn to behave in Church if they aren’t in Church? How can we expect our children to prioritize Church if we don’t?...
Orthodox Quote for April 15
“It is from the Church itself that man becomes a partaker of the divine nature, as he enters into the closes relationship with the Holy Trinity. Where God is...
Orthodox Quote for April 14
“This is why the true theologian is not the one that attends university courses and excels due to remembering some dates and names or writing a thesis. The true...
Orthodox Quote for April 13
“We must not despair when we struggle and continuously see nothing but the slightest progress. We all do nearly nothing — some a little more, some a little less....
Orthodox Quote for April 12
“It is not only by shedding the blood of a person, by depriving him or her of this bodily life that we become murderers. How often people have been...
Orthodox Quote for April 11
“For example, regarding those whose “opinion, creed or party” is not Orthodox Christian, should we not work for their salvation by prayer, faith and good works? If we cannot...
Daily Devotional for April 17 – 23
Sunday Palm Sunday Antiphons Another Troparion, tone 4: As by Baptism we were buried with Thee, O Christ our God, so by Thy Resurrection we were granted immortal life, and...
Elder St Porphyrios on the Bloodless Struggle…
Don’t struggle directly with temptation, don’t pray for it to go away, don’t say, ‘Take it from me, 0 God!’ Then you are acknowledging the strength of the temptation...
Orthodox Quote for April 10
“I could go on with many other examples of where I have been given the opportunity to be a missionary for our Faith; and they all cost nothing. No...