Elder St Paisios on the Need for Discipline
“Today’s youth are like a calf that is tied to a stake in a meadow that constantly kicks and yanks on the rope, pulls out the stake, runs off,...
Orthodox Quote for April 24
“An angel speaks with a virgin, because a woman spoke to a serpent.” (St. John Chrysostom on the Annunciation)
Orthodox Quote for April 23
“Repentance signifies a firm resolution not to return to a sin. For this reason precisely the righteous are called blameless, for they have abandoned sin and have been proven...
Orthodox Quote for April 22
“It is not something burdensome and demanding that He requires of us, is it? No, simply heartfelt contrition, a lull in our wild ideas, confession of sins, earnest recourse...
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Bearing Each Other’s Burdens
“Between saintliness and vice there is a bridge, not an abyss. The saintliest and the meanest men have still common ground for brotherhood. Your sins are my sins, my...
Orthodox Quote for April 21
“Do not be despondent if you unexpectedly fall. The Lord may let us fall to teach us, to help us realize our own weakness so that with greater faith...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for April 21-27
*This week will have Gospel readings of events that happened each day of Holy Week Sunday Matthew 21: 1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come...
Orthodox Quote for April 20
“Some people living carelessly in the world put a question to me: “How can we who are married and living amid public cares aspire to the monastic life?” I...
Making Our Visit to Church ‘Real’
… “So much that is put in front of us is so rich, and yet we don’t slow down our hearts enough and our minds enough to take delight in...
Orthodox Quote for April 19
“If we do not go to Church, except when we have some crisis in our lives, how can we say that we are Orthodox? If our churches are empty,...