Orthodox Quote for April 23
“Passion is an irrational motion of the soul; a movement out of its natural environment, especially towards perceived things. Wickedness is the wrong judgment of thoughts, which is followed...
St. Nektarios of Aegina on Happiness
“How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain...
Orthodox Quote for April 22
“We celebrate the memories of saints, and almost no one appears in the church. It seems that the distance sways the Christians to negligence. Or rather, not the distance,...
Orthodox Quote for April 21
“Surround yourselves, O people, gird up yourselves with little works of good— with a chain of little, simple, easy and good feelings which cost us naught, a chain of...
Orthodox Quote for April 20
“Maybe like our Father Paul, we as Orthodox Christians and followers of the risen Lord Jesus, are not called to always give a theological treatise to every theological question....
Elder St Paisios on Faith and Love
“First comes faith and then love. One must believe in order to love. One cannot love something he does not believe in. So to love God we must believe...
Orthodox Quote for April 19
Shine! Shine! O New Jerusalem! The glory of the Lord has shone upon you! Exult and be glad O Zion! Be radiant O Pure Theotokos, in the Resurrection of...
Daily Devotional for April 19 – 25
Sunday – Pascha! John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary – Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away...
Orthodox Quote for April 18
“In our day, I assure you, that many saints will come out of the big cities, from within the apartment buildings, the noise, the pollution and the agony of...
Hieroschemamonk Stefan on Keeping Ourselves Pure
By the Sacraments of the Church, especially confession and Communion, and, of course, the asceticism that everyone should bear—fasting, prayer, and most of all, the guarding of the senses....