Orthodox Quote for May 1
“All spiritual struggles taken on without corresponding strength are abandoned. The impression left by an abandoned excessive podvig/struggle is so harmful that the spiritual strugglers who abandon an immoderate...
Orthodox Quote for April 30
“We give glory to You, O Lord, who raised up Your cross to span the jaws of death like a bridge, by which souls might pass from the region...
Orthodox Quote for April 29
“If we were to discover that someone unknown to us had been secretly helping us in a very significant way, without wanting anything in return, we would have such...
Bishop Irenei on Fear Ruling the World…
This world has shown, in these past few months, what really governs it — and it is not wisdom or compassion, or science, or truth. It is fear. For...
Orthodox Quote for April 28
“…he who labours the most in the works of the Lord, shall receive the most in the kingdom of God. Let each of us, in whatever vocation he is...
Orthodox Quote for April 27
“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Heb. 9:27). Human life is a single definite period of trial, after which there is no...
Orthodox Quote for April 26
“The Bible is in a sense a biography of God in this world. In it the Indescribable One has in a sense described Himself…God the Logos revealed God’s plan...
Orthodox Quote for April 25
“Some such people experience religion as a kind of hell. They make prostrations and cross themselves in church and they say, ‘We are unworthy sinners’, then as soon as...
Reminder of Orthodox Traditions for the Departed
In Orthodoxy there is a pious custom of commemorating reposed ancestors and all departed Orthodox Christians, so that the living can honor the memory and pray for the salvation...
For Holy Week April 25 – May 1
Sunday Matthew 21:1-17; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:19-44; John 12:12-19 SUMMARY: Entry into Jerusalem; Lament for Jerusalem; Visit at the Temple; Return to Bethany Now when they drew near...