Orthodox Daily Devotional for March 11-17
Sunday Mark 8: 34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,...
Orthodox Quote for March 10
“God hears the prayers of the just. This is clearly seen from the lives of …Old Testament righteous ones and prophets, as well as from the lives of the...
Orthodox Quote for March 10
“Christ doesn’t expect us to submit to a cold, impersonal, moral law, but rather that, at every moment of our lives, we should deny our will, our preferences, our...
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ on Grace
“Freeing ourselves from sin is not an immediate but a gradual process which resembles growing up. Through our perseverance, the purification of the heart is attained to slowly and...
Orthodox Quote for March 9
“To pray is something we all desperately seek, but this takes work on our part and engaging our heart. If we don’t accept the reality that prayer begins with...
Orthodox Quote for March 8
“Today, when there is so much confusion in the brain, we have abandoned patristic books and taken up magazines, which confuse people even more. Most of us, whether we...
Orthodox Quote for March 7
“It is impossible for a person to procede without ever stumbling somewhere, because from all sides the devil, the world and the flesh are continuously inserting obstacles into his...
Fr. Seraphim Rose+ on True Faith
All this is by way of explaining that Orthodoxy, in St. Tikhon’s definition, is the true Christianity, and it was never more needed than today. We must realize what...
Orthodox Quote for March 6
“If we shall carefully observe them the Forty Days signify the life of the present age, as the days of Pascha also signify the life of eternal blessedness”. (Blessed...
Orthodox Quote for March 5
“When you will fast then your mind will aspire and wish to converse with God. Equally the body, which is used to fasting, will also not want to sleep...