Daily Devotional for May 24-30
Sunday James 21:27 – Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the Word, and not a...
Orthodox Quote for May 23
“An unhurried and devout recitation of the words will greatly help in keeping attention on the prayers. If one only has a little time for prayer, it would be...
Orthodox Quote for May 22
“It seems that nothing should be simpler and more natural for us than prayer and our hearts’ striving for God. But in fact it is not always like this...
Orthodox Quote for May 21
“If a person sins, then the spiritual gates of the Heavenly Kingdom are closed to his soul, but by confessing his sins, by real repentance and then by receiving...
Orthodox Quote for May 20
“For the Universal Orthodox Church, there are no sacred (sanctified) objects for single-use, but for perpetual use (Chalice, disk, star and spoon), objects that are cleaned before and after...
St. Silouan the Athonite on Pride
“Pride does not allow the soul to set out on the path of faith. Here is my advice to the unbeliever: let him say, “Lord, if you exist, then...
Orthodox Quote for May 19
“We do not have enough priests to take on the fates of all people. It is simply impossible to decide everything for everybody. A priest simply does not have...
Orthodox Quote for May 18
“God’s answer to man’s suffering is not to wave it away. God’s answer to man’s suffering is to enter into it, to suffer Himself. Why did not He not just...
Elder St Paisios on Anger
“The goal is to anticipate it and not come to the point of anger. Even when you’re warming milk, if you don’t remove it from the heat on time,...
Orthodox Quote for May 17
“Russians know the dangers of aggressive secularism, having suffered seventy years of state sponsored atheism, and many Russians look with amazement at what they see as American capitulation to...