Orthodox Quote for July 14
“When someone contemplates the events of each feast, physiologically they will be moved with a special reverence to pray. Then during the Services the mind will be on the...
Orthodox Quote for July 13
“Each evil spirit wars against us and operates in their own way, depending on the passion they support. However, all the demons work together to immerse us in the...
Orthodox Quote for July 12
“You have been born, and so you can at least be certain that you will die, but even in this certainty of death uncertainty lurks, because you do not...
Orthodox Quote for July 11
“I left my parents out of love for Christ, and I made a promise so I can’t stay at my family’s house anymore. For me all the people in...
Orthodox Quote for July 10
“Look statistically at the number of words that deal with sending people out to take part in the mission of the Church. Christ on earth as the incarnate Son...
Devotional for Sunday, July 10
Reading is Matthew 6:22-33 ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: “The eye He speaks of is not the external but the internal eye. The light is the understanding, through which the soul...
Orthodox Quote for July 9
“The Kingdom is taken by violence and force. That implies to me in a lot of ways that we can’t sit on the sidelines as passive observers. We have...
Orthodox Quote for July 8
“If birds that to-day are, and to-morrow are not, be nourished by God’s providence, without thought or toil of their own, how much more men to whom eternity is...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Man’s first enemy is the devil, the second is sin, and the third is death. The Lord Jesus conquered all three of these enemies of the human race. By...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Looking at Orthodoxy, at its present state and its prospects in the period before us, we may see two opposed aspects. First of all, there is the spirit of...