Orthodox Quote for August 26
“We can fast by simply being dutifully obedient, holding to the fast by the sheer power of our determination… Eventually, as the focus of such fasting shifts to oneself,...
Orthodox Quote for August 25
“Work at your job and perform it as an obedience to God. Not everyone is supposed to run around the church…People also need engineers, doctors, and teachers—all are needed....
Orthodox Quote for August 24
“Serving others in the world, venerable Father, is prayer. Receive people with prayer, because it’s God sending them to the monastery. Let us first calm the souls of Christians,...
Orthodox Quote for August 23
“Solitude helps us to be continually united to God. It helps one who prays to be more united to the hidden world within himself, so that he can struggle...
Peter Mamonov+ on What Really Matters…
For me, the Lord is the constant joy of His presence. That’s how I want to live; it’s so good—strong, close… And if I’m in sin, then I immediately...
Orthodox Quote for August 22
“It is for you to respond to them and to imitate them in constant, unceasing prayer… Thus we should honor these holy angels who are unseen yet are present...
Daily Devotional for August 22-28
Sunday Excerpts from Orthodox Elders this week St. Nikolai on Christ’s Resurrection… He is the Light of truth, because He revealed in Himself the truth of the true nature...
Orthodox Quote for August 21
“The rich exist for the sake of the poor and the poor exist for the salvation of the #8221; (Saint John Chrysostom, homily)
Orthodox Quote for August 20
“Thus every bestowal of good works is of God’s preparing: because a man is justified by grace rather than by his own excellence: for grace is to everyone the...
Orthodox Quote for August 19
“No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them beyond their strength and are crushed by...