Orthodox Quote for January 1
“…we encounter a very different, encouraging and hopeful interpretation of such disastrous events. At the same time the Church prays for deliverance from fire and disasters and evils of...
Elder Joseph on the Struggle for Grace’
“Now you see that grace has come again. Be careful, because it will leave again. And when it leaves, be brave, patient, and perfectly obedient. It will return again....
Orthodox Quote for December 31
“… Man cannot escape God’s eye even as regards the smallest things, even in the most secret places for God is present everywhere. He cannot lie to God without...
Daily Devotional for December 31 – January 6
Sunday Matthew 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee...
Orthodox Quote for December 30
“The heavenly knowledge to which the ascetics of old attained does not differ from the heavenly knowledge to which the ascetics of today attain. For, as Christ is the...
Orthodox Quote for December 29
“God wants from us our good intentions, our good will, which will be expressed by even our limited but full of philotimo spiritual struggle, and the awareness of our...
Elder St Porphyrios on Worship
“The divine services are a very great affair. They are everything. I have experienced this. The precondition is for everything to be done with eras, with interest and with...
Orthodox Quote for December 28
“When we are confronted by the ruins of human love and find ourselves completely broken, then two solutions can be given: either we turn to God with our pain,...
Orthodox Quote for December 26
“Christ is born, and just as the shepherds we will go out glorifying and praising God for all that we have seen in the light of this holy Feast…As...
Orthodox Quote for December 27
“The world longs for authentic love but seems to remain mired in the global tragedies that we witness every day. In our horizontal and human relations with one another,...