Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov on Time with Children
“The upbringing of children is a great and daily creative process. It is the parents’ hard work and constant, wise attention to their children. I have many times had...
Orthodox Quote for November 11
“The Cross of the monk is cutting his own will. To give up what he likes. To carry what is not convenient.” (Elder Arsenie Papacioc of Romania, sayings)
Orthodox Daily Devotional for November 11-17
Sunday Epistles Ephesians 2: For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the...
Orthodox Quote for November 10
“The man-loving and bountiful Lord has given us an incomparable mercy and great happiness: the opportunity to belong to the Orthodox Church, to constitute the one Body of Christ,...
St. Seraphim of Sarov on ‘Good’ Deeds
“But mark, my son, only the good deed done for Christ’s sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ’s sake, even...
Orthodox Quote for November 9
“There is no better teacher than death. Have death before your minds: the time when you will leave this unreal world and will go to the other one, which...
Orthodox Quote for November 8
“The Church is the foundation of virtue and the school of spiritual life. Just cross its threshold at any time, and immediately you forget daily cares. Pass inside, and...
Elder Joseph+ of Vatopaidi on Cycles of Grace
From now on, he who has tasted this sweetness let him be prepared to also taste the corresponding bitterness which is the result of the changes. Mother grace, which...
Orthodox Quote for November 7
“Developing the will means impressing upon it good dispositions or virtues — humility, meekness, patience, continence, submissiveness, helpfulness and so on — so that in blending with and grafting...
Orthodox Quote for November 6
“See to it that you serve God with fear and trembling, for the crafty devil, who trips up those who struggle, waits for a period of negligence, and then...