Orthodox Daily Devotional for April 23-29
Sunday The doubt of Thomas is described in the Church hymns as “blessed,” for it was not a doubt of resistance to truth, but one that desperately desired a...
Orthodox Quote for April 21
“This ladder has thirty steps. The first three are about detaching from worldly things. The next four have to do with the fundamental virtues. The next sixteen represent the...
Orthodox Quote for April 18
“The Orthodox Church contains the fullness of divine revelation to mankind. Forms of Christianity, such as Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, are only partial expressions of the Christian Truth. ...
Orthodox Quote for April 20
“Pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17). For the sake of our constancy in the work of prayer, dryness of heart and emotional boredom will with time give place to...
Orthodox Quote for April 17
“We cannot abide in carefree idleness knowing that around us are people who have yet to discover the joy of life in God, people who are suffering, the afflicted,...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for Bright Week
Monday **Readings for several weeks will be from the Book of Acts which is the history of the early Church. Acts 1 4 And being assembled together with them, He...
Quote for Holy Pascha
“Christ by His Resurrection did not cross us over a lake, over a crack in the earth, over a canal, over a river like the Red Sea. He brought...
Holy Saturday
“To be concerned for the dead, to do good for the dead, has ceased to be amusing [to doubters] since the revelation of the Lord Jesus, Who revealed that...
Holy Friday
“Longinus was chief of the soldiers who were present at the Crucifixion of the Lord on Golgotha, and was also the chief of the watch that guarded the tomb…,...
Holy Thursday
“In Holy Communion, He gives Himself completely to us, Body and Blood. But Holy Communion is a reminder that our souls must continually be nourished by Him, continually eat...