Fr Vasilios on Quiet Prayer-time…
“Our Good Lord went up a mountain to communicate in prayer with His Heavenly Father. As true God, He was always united with His Father, but as the perfect...
Orthodox Quote for September 9
“All evil deeds are cursed, and everyone who does evil deeds puts a curse on himself and his children. He who fears God and glorifies God and trusts in...
Orthodox Quote for September 8
“But what about those who have never heard Jesus’ teachings? St. Paul considers this situation in the early chapters of his letter to the Romans. Everyone, he tells us,...
Elder Ephraim+ of Arizona on the Fall
“Christ humbled Himself out of obedience to His heavenly Father. He obeyed as a man in order to teach us the lofty virtue of obedience, for without humility, one...
Orthodox Quote for September 6
“The Sunday Divine Liturgy is not the only time that we pray but rather it is the culmination of our week of prayer and focus on God. With this...
Daily Devotional for September 6-12
Sunday Matthew 2:9 Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Arise, take the young...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for September 8-12
Sunday John 2:1: On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His...
Orthodox Quote for September 5
“When man has great humility, acknowledges his fault, feels his guilt to a great extent and suffers, and labours over it, then Christ will indeed be lenient with him...
Orthodox Quote for September 4
“Our business is to be humble before God in penitential prayer and honest and open to people. A man can’t choose the place where he is born or the...
Orthodox Quote for September 3
“Prayer is not only the expression of words and phrases, or the reading of formal prayers and psalms. It’s our personal meeting and encounter with our Creator—a meeting that...