Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“The most important thing in the spiritual life is to strive to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. It changes our lives (above all inwardly, not outwardly). We...
Sunday Devotion for February 14
Gospel commentary from the Sunday of Zaccheus Luke 19:1-10 Come and let us see what was the method of Zacchaeus’s conversion. He desired to see Jesus and therefore climbed...
Orthodox Quote for February 13
“Scripture teaches us that God led his people of Israel out of Egypt and into a forty-year journey of hardship in a lonely and forbidding wilderness. And yet, at...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“It is essential to read the Gospel, that incomparable book. Then our life will be built up on the basis of the Word of God. And we will begin...
Orthodox Quote for February 12
“One who seeks mercy from God shows clearly that he does not demand the fruit of his own merit and the debt of his own zeal but that he...
Orthodox Quote for February 11
“Go to church early. We do Orthros for the faithful and not for the chairs!” (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos+ in ‘Counsels for Life’)
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Learn first of all to be at peace with the spiritual situation which has been given you, and to make the most of it. If your situation is spiritually...
Orthodox Quote for February 10
“[Missionary work] is a linkage of one’s own temperament, knowledge, possibilities and local conditions. It is not necessary to follow certain molds . . . The missionary is free...
Orthodox Quote for February 9
“The Church is not the bishop alone, or the priest alone, or the laity alone. The Church is the bishop, the priests and the laity working together…we are laborers...
Orthodox Quote for February 8
“Christians are destined to bear a heavy cross in their life. It’s a difficult thing to say you believe in the Lord and also that you have ease of...