Orthodox Quote for April 14
“This is why the true theologian is not the one that attends university courses and excels due to remembering some dates and names or writing a thesis. The true...
Orthodox Quote for April 13
“We must not despair when we struggle and continuously see nothing but the slightest progress. We all do nearly nothing — some a little more, some a little less....
Orthodox Quote for April 12
“It is not only by shedding the blood of a person, by depriving him or her of this bodily life that we become murderers. How often people have been...
Orthodox Quote for April 11
“For example, regarding those whose “opinion, creed or party” is not Orthodox Christian, should we not work for their salvation by prayer, faith and good works? If we cannot...
Daily Devotional for April 17 – 23
Sunday Palm Sunday Antiphons Another Troparion, tone 4: As by Baptism we were buried with Thee, O Christ our God, so by Thy Resurrection we were granted immortal life, and...
Elder St Porphyrios on the Bloodless Struggle…
Don’t struggle directly with temptation, don’t pray for it to go away, don’t say, ‘Take it from me, 0 God!’ Then you are acknowledging the strength of the temptation...
Orthodox Quote for April 10
“I could go on with many other examples of where I have been given the opportunity to be a missionary for our Faith; and they all cost nothing. No...
Daily Devotional for April 10-16
Sunday We find ourselves in a fight during Lent. The individual wrestles with the reality of his or her addictions and insecurities. The Christian community suffers through grumbling, gossip,...
Orthodox Quote for April 9
“I think that the biggest enemy [of Christianity] is soft-Christian, secularized religion, consumerism with religious overtones, the dissolution of Christian values in a hateful religion of pleasure and excellence…violent...
Orthodox Quote for April 8
“We must remember that God Himself is the author of marriage and that the well being of the individual person and human society at large is closely bound up...