Orthodox Quote for December 30
“The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this...
(St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Christ’s Pure Love
“The love which Christ revealed to the world, my dear, is the love from “before the foundation of the world” (John 17: 24). That love, therefore, is not temporal...
Sergei Iosifovich Fudel+ on the ‘Witness’ of the Church
“The Holy Church of Christ is one! But its dark double has existed in history near it and under its name. Evil has always lived next to the never-fading...
Orthodox Quote for December 29
“May Christ live in us and manifest Himself through us to our families, our friends, our enemies, and the whole world. May we be inspired again to think as...
Devotional for December 30 – January 4
Sunday Matthew 2: 13 that time: The Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in – a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young Child, and his Mother, and...
Orthodox Quote for December 28
“Every attack against us isn’t solely wicked; it’s also a blessing. It helps us to become better, to acquire humility. A wicked tongue, a poisonous tongue is a ‘messenger...
Orthodox Quote for December 27
“…there is another category of people: they have walked away from the Church because they were disappointed. They were not disillusioned with themselves, or their ideals, or even Christianity...
Orthodox Quote for December 26
“When we do not pay attention to ourselves, when we do not examine how we spent the day, what we did, in what we transgressed, but we live indifferently...
Archpriest Sergei Barnanov on Elder Ephraim+ of Arizona
During the service, he stands with you near the altar, but his soul is not there. That’s the feeling I had. Just to look at him was all I...
Orthodox Quote for December 25
“Christ is born…glorify Him!” (Traditional Orthodox Nativity greeting)